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Bernd Becher (photographer) is dead

From:     obi
Category: Art
Date:     27 June 2007
Time:     11:08 AM

Review:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=4BMDHSV2HS0ZVQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYI
V0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/06/27/db2702.xml

http://www.artnet.com/artist/2179/bernd-and-hilla-becher.html


Becher part of the husband and wife team who made deadpan photos big, is dead. Them and their  
students, Struth, Gursky et al are the reason we see so many photos that look like passport shots or 
images from the city archive. Objectivity turned out to be quite a style. 


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