View of Siège Cheratte mine, Liège, Belgium

People:

Bernd and Hilla Becher (photographers)

Title:

View of Siège Cheratte mine, Liège, Belgium

Date:

1980

Description:

- The group of 86 photographs PH1987:0996 - PH1987:1081 by Bernd and Hilla Becher show 75 views of steel mill blast furnaces and 11 views of mines. There are 45 views of steel mill blast furnaces in Germany, 15 in the United States, and five in each of France, Luxembourg and Belgium. There are five views of mines in Germany, two in Belgium, two in the United States, and one in each of France and Wales.
- The group of 86 photographs PH1987:0996 - PH1987:1081 by Bernd and Hilla Becher show 11 views of mines including: five views of mines in Germany (PH1987:1071 - PH1987:1075); two views of mines in Belgium (PH1987:1076 - PH1987:1077); two views of a mine in the United States (PH1987:1080 - PH1987:1081); and one view each of a mine in France (PH1987:1078) and a mine in Wales (PH1987:1079).
- The photographers have not indicated the exhibition layout for the group of eleven photographs PH1987:1071 - PH1987:1081 of views of mining "landscapes" which are numbered from "R 1" through "R 11" (Kicken Pauseback, 1987).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 30.6 x 40.4 cm sheet: 30.9 x 40.4 cm

Reference number:

PH1987:1076

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed, numbered, dated and signed - by the photographers, in graphite, on the print, verso, c.: "R 6" [circled]; "SIÈGE CHERATTE / LIÈGE / BELGIUM / 1980" [erased]; "Bernd Becher / Hilla Becher"; l.l. to b.: "SIÈGE CHERATTE LIÈGE BELGIUM"; and l.r.: "1980" imprinted - in grey ink, on the print, verso, throughout: "Agfa" [diagonally; sideways; underlined twice]

Location:

Liège; Belgium;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

mine (industrial complex)
mine building

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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