Anonymous Sculpture

Bernd Becher, Hilla Becher · 1963–1970

You're looking at Anonymous Sculpture — a photograph by the German artist Bernd Becher, Hilla Becher, nineteen sixty-three to nineteen seventy. A gelatin silver print — the standard black-and-white photograph of the twentieth century, paper coated in gelatin holding light-sensitive silver, developed by hand in a tray.

Medium Gelatin silver prints · Dimensions Overall 6' 11 5/8" × 6' 2 1/4" (207.3 × 188.4 cm) · Credit Gertrud A. Mellon Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 412: Colombia, Composition with Red and Blue

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Power Station, Steel Elevator and Shed - near Abilene, Texas, American Landscape, Stock Market. Set design for scene four of the ballet H.P. (Horsepower), Lodz, Pipe fitters finishing the engine room of a tuna-fishing boat. Campbell Shipyard. San Diego harbor from the series Fish Story