• Bernd and Hilla Becher (photographers)

General view of Arbed steel mill, Terre Rouge, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

1979

- 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 five views of steel mill blast furnaces in Luxembourg including: four views of the Arbed steel mill in Terre Rouge, Esch-sur-Alzette (PH1987:1036, PH1987:1051 and PH1987:1065 - PH1987:1066); and one view of the Arbed steel mill in Düdelingen (PH1987:1046).
- 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

comp.: 30.6 x 40.4 cm

PH1987:1065

• general view
• exterior view

imprinted - in grey ink, on the print, verso, throughout: "Agfa" [diagonally; sideways; underlined twice] inscribed, numbered, signed and dated - by the photographers, in graphite, on the print, verso, c.: "P 6" [circled]; "Bernd Becher / Hilla Becher"; l.l. to b.: "ARBED TERRE-ROUGE ESCHE-ALZETTE LUXEMBOURG"; and l.r.: "1979"

Esch-sur-Alzette; Luxembourg;

• architecture
• ingénierie

• blast furnaces
• steel mill

© Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher