Blast Furnace, Youngstown, Ohio, United States
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.The buildings Bernd and Hilla Becher chose to photograph were meant to be altered or demolished when superseded technologically. Given the planned obsolescence of their subjects, the artists’ timing played an important role in the success of their practice. In one of their last books, Industrial Landscapes (2002), they commented: “Once we were in northern France, where we found a wonderful headgear [the top of a blast furnace]—a veritable Eiffel Tower. When we arrived the weather was hazy and not ideal for our work so we decided to postpone taking the photos for a day. When we arrived the next day, it had already been torn down, the dust was in the air.”
Artwork Details
- Title: Blast Furnace, Youngstown, Ohio, United States
- Artist: Bernd and Hilla Becher (German, active 1959–2007)
- Date: 1983
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 23 1/8 × 18 1/4 in. (58.8 × 46.4 cm)
Frame: 35 7/8 × 29 5/8 × 1 1/8 in. (91.2 × 75.2 × 2.8 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher, courtesy Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur—Bernd & Hilla Becher Archive, Cologne.
- Rights and Reproduction: © Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher, courtesy Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur—Bernd & Hilla Becher Archive, Cologne.
- Curatorial Department: Photographs