Publisher/Schirmer/Mosel

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"Gas Tanks" is a collection of works by Bernd and Hilla Becher, the great photographer couple of the 20th century. They formally recorded buildings, focusing on industrial facilities and their surrounding structures, and even depicted the differences in their structure and shape, as well as the changes in culture, history, and era. Their style is consistent, and they pursue precision and objectivity, focusing on recording the beauty of the buildings' forms. In particular, their efforts to shed light on structures forgotten in the process of industrialization and to preserve them historically have had a great influence on later photographers and artists. They also taught at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, and are highly regarded for having many students who are still active worldwide today, such as Andreas Gursky, Thomas Stult, and Thomas Ruff. This is one of the series of works that features the motif of "gas tanks."