Anonyme Skulpturen: A Typology of Technical Constructions
New York: Wittenborn and Co., 1970.
First edition, first printing, American issue, published simultaneously in Germany and America. Signed by Hilla Becher on the title page. Near Fine with light splaying to the boards and light toning to contents. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning, rubbing and several short closed tears to edges. The first monograph of the Bechers and often considered their magnum opus. Minimal and clean in design, the viewer is quietly immersed into the couple's distinctively stark style. "In this book we show objects predominantly instrumental in character, whose shapes are the result of calculation and whose processes of development are optically evident. They are generally buildings where anonymity is accepted to be the style. Their peculiarities originate not in spite of, but because of the lack of design." Roth 101, p. 194.
Price: $6,500