Bernd and Hilla Becher have spent their life together photographing the unintended beauty that can be found in industrial structures. Michael Collins profiles the winners of 2002’s prestigious erasmus prize for European culture.
Between 1976 and 1996, Bernd was the professor of photography at the Kunstakademie
Undated note on the Professor’s business card may be not related to him. Text …
Undated note on the Professor’s business card may be not related to him.
Deller talks about wall drawing called The History of the World, a sort of mad-professor’s
11 January 1933 My dearest Annerl! What wonderful Christmas gifts you’ve bestowed on me! And so soon after the complete works of Chekhov for my birthday! What can I say? Clifford might be more capable of finding words to express his joy . . . . . . but Etl? He can only sit before this hoard of wonderful, warm, colourful, intimate, elegant things – all chosen by his Annerl – and attempt to suppress the emotion he feels welling up inside him. For an Indian howl of victory might arouse suspicions, and he can’t do somersaults and cartwheels in …
There are also some outstanding professors at the Sorbonne for that. We’ll see.
or John Akomfrah, Reece Auguiste, and having them telegraph, if you will, to the professors
