
STEVEN PROBERT/©ESTATE OF BERND AND HILLA BECHER/COURTESY PAULA COOPER GALLERY, NEW YORK
STEVEN PROBERT/©ESTATE OF BERND AND HILLA BECHER/COURTESY PAULA COOPER GALLERY, NEW YORK
Working together for several decades, the Bechers created influential series of photographs that visualized the recurrence of forms throughout time and space. (Bernd died in 2007, and Hilla died in 2015.) They are most known for their “typologies”—gridded sets of stark black-and-white pictures that focus on particular kinds of industrial buildings and show them reappearing in different places, in each case looking almost exactly the same.
The Bechers’ estate will also continue to be represented by Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco; Konrad Fischer Galerie in Dusseldorf and Berlin; and Sprüth Magers in Berlin, London, and Los Angeles.