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Dimensions
50,8 x 40,6 cm (ciascuna)
Technique
Sixteen photographs printed on paper
Description
The Bechers always limited themselves to systematically and neutrally recording this kind of ruined architecture, without coloristic connotation and with fairly uniform light-shadow conditions. Compared to the Gasometers also in the Valsecchi collection, which are chronologically earlier, this work has a greater visual impact because of the size and arrangement of the photographs in separate frames. The photographic series was first exhibited in Massimo Valsecchi’s gallery in Milan on the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to the Bechers held in May 1977: in that show, the work occupied the entire back wall.
