• Bernd and Hilla Becher (photographers)

View of a coal mine tipple of S & T Coal Co. mine, Bear Valley, Pottsville, Pennsylvania

1974

- 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).

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 30.6 x 40.6 cm

PH1987:1080

• exterior view

inscribed, numbered, dated and signed - by the photographers, in graphite, on the print, verso, c.: "R 10" [circled]; "COAL TIPPLE / BEAR VALLEY / nr. POTTSVILLE, PA. / 1974" [erased]; "Bernd Becher / Hilla Becher"; l.c.: "9" [circled; erased]; l.l. to b.: "BEAR VALLEY NR. POTTSVILLE, PA"; and l.r.: "25" [erased]; and "1974" imprinted - in grey ink, on the print, verso, throughout: "Agfa" [diagonally; sideways; underlined twice]

Pottsville; Pennsylvania; United States;

• architecture
• ingénierie

• mine (industrial complex)
• mine building
• tipple

© Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher