• Bernd and Hilla Becher (photographers)

View of Sheet & Tube Co. steel mill showing blast furnaces, Youngstown, Ohio

1981

- 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 15 views of steel mill blast furnaces in the United States including: three views of the Bethlehem Steel steel mill in Johnstown, Pennsylvania (PH1987:1054 - PH1987:1056); three views of the U.S. Steel steel mill in Youngstown, Ohio (PH1987:1038, PH1987:1057, and PH1987:1059); two views of the Sheet & Tube Co. steel mill in Youngstown, Ohio (PH1987:1060 - PH1987:1061); and one view each of the Republic Steel steel mill in Youngstown, Ohio (PH1987:1047), the Central Furnaces of the U.S. Steel steel mill in Cleveland, Ohio (PH1987:1039), the U.S. Steel Duquesne Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (PH1987:1040), the U.S. Steel Edgar Thompson Plant in Braddock, Pennsylvania (PH1987:1041), the Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. steel mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (PH1987:1062), the U.S. Steel steel mill in Gary, Indiana (PH1987:1058), and the Bethlehem Steel steel mill in Sparrows Point, Baltimore, Maryland (PH1987:1037).
- The photographers have not indicated the exhibition layout for the group of eleven photographs PH1987:1060 - PH1987:1070 of views of blast furnace "landscapes" which are numbered from "P 1" through "P 11" (Kicken Pauseback, 1987).

Gelatin silver print

sheet: 30,9 x 40.5 cm

PH1987:1061

• exterior view

inscribed, numbered, signed and dated - by the photographers, in graphite, on the print, verso, c.: "P 2" [circled]; "Bernd Becher / Hilla Becher"; l.l. to b.: "SHEET & TUBE CO, YOUNGSTOWN OHIO (2 VIEWS)"; and l.r.: "1981" imprinted - in grey ink, on the print, verso, throughout: "Agfa" [diagonally; sideways; underlined twice]

Youngstown; Ohio; United States;

• architecture
• ingénierie

• blast furnaces
• steel mill

© Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher