Fachwerkhauser des Siegner Industriegebietes.

signed

Between 1977 and 2006, Schirmer/Mosel published a series of books with Bernd and Hilla Becher, which chart the decline of heavy industry in Western Europe and the United States. Each presents photographs from a single workgroup or of a particular type of industrial structure.

This book includes photographs of half-timbered houses in the industrial region around Siegen, where Bernd Becher grew up. In addition to the photographs, this book includes an index which gives the locations and dates of when the houses were built and the names and professions of the people who commissioned the construction of the buildings.

Second edition; signed by both Bernd and Hilla Becher in pencil on the front free endpaper; 4to (241 x 214 m, 9½ x 8½ in); black-and-white photographs, minor toning to margins; plain endpapers, navy cloth-covered boards, titles stamped to spine in grey, white photo-illustrated dust-jacket, text in black, fine; 356pp.