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Picture New York Without Pictures of New York

Thousands of New Yorkers who love both their city and their cameras may face exactly that if the cumbersome, costly and unconstitutional regulations from the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater, and Broadcasting go into effect this August as scheduled.

Picture New York is an ad hoc coalition of working artists, filmmakers, and photographers who’ve joined together to fight the proposed rules. These rules can be seen not only as a blow against New York as a place that welcomes and inspires art-making and documentation, but are part of a broader continuum of attacks against civil liberties and free expression.

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pictureny.org

Please visit the site and sign the petition.

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Bernd Becher, who spent his life meticulously documenting post-industrial landscapes in in Germany and other areas in Europe and the United States with wife Hilla, has died on 22 June 2007 in Rostock, Germany.

They were fascinated by the similar shapes in which certain buildings were designed. In addition, they were intrigued by the fact that so many of these industrial buildings seemed to have been built with a great deal of attention toward design. Together, the Bechers went out with a large format camera and photographed these buildings from a number of different angles, but always with a straightforward "objective" point of view. The images of structures with similar functions were then displayed side by side to invite viewers to compare their forms and designs. These structures included barns, water towers, storage silos, and warehouses.

Books

Anonymous Sculptures: A Typology of Technical Construction, 1970.
Water Towers, 1988.
Blast Furnaces, 1990.
Gas Tanks, 1993.
Industrial Facades, 1995.
Mineheads, 1997.
Framework Houses, 2001.
Industrial Landscapes, 2002.
Basic Forms of Industrial Buildings, 2004. ISBN 3-8296-0150-6.
Typologies, 2004. ISBN 0-262-02565-5.
Cooling Towers, 2006.
Grain Elevators, 2006.

Biography

Susanne, Lange (2006). Bernd and Hilla Becher: Life and Work. The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-12286-3.

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