{"id":6441,"date":"2015-10-15T21:31:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T01:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=6441"},"modified":"2015-10-15T21:36:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T01:36:19","slug":"new-yorkhilla-becher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/new-yorkhilla-becher\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Hilla Becher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hilla Becher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/15\/arts\/hilla-becher-photographer-who-chronicled-industrial-scenery-dies-at-81.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=obituaries&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=3&amp;pgtype=sectionfront\" target=\"_blank\">died on Saturday<\/a> at the age of 81. Her husband and partner Bernd died some years ago at age 75. A few years ago I posted the image below and the following short comment. There&#8217;s a lot you can say about the Bechers, but fewer words probably better suit their methodology.<\/p>\n<p>September 9, 2011<br \/>\nThe Museum of Modern Art<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/becherwall.jpg\" alt=\"becherwall\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/becherwall.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/becherwall-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><br \/>\nFramework Houses by Bernd and Hilla Becher \u2014 \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve written in the past that it sometimes seems that the Bechers are overexposed. You can\u2019t go anywhere without seeing their images, often in large grids, like the Fachwerk facades above. But let\u2019s face it, this is brilliant work, especially this grouping. Their approach transcends genres. It is rigorous and seemingly impersonal, but in the end, suffused with pathos for human endeavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hilla Becher died on Saturday at the age of 81. Her husband and partner Bernd died some years ago at age 75. A few years ago I posted the image below and the following short comment. There&#8217;s a lot you can say about the Bechers, but fewer words probably better suit their methodology. September 9, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6444,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions\/6444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}