Bernd and Hilla Becher are always an inspiration to me. Their extensive current exhibition @metmuseum in NY chronicles their evolution and work as an artist couple with a rigorous practice of photographing the disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America. Using a large-format view camera they methodically recorded vernacular architecture, blast furnaces, water towers, grain silos, cooling towers and gas tanks with precision, elegance and passion. Their standardised approach allowed for comparative analysis of various structures across continents that they exhibited singularly or in grids. They described these grids as ‘typologies’ and the buildings themselves as ‘anonymous sculpture’. Pictured here: Gas Tank, Wesseling, Cologne Germany, 1983 #metropolitanmuseumofart #berndandhillabecher #photography #typologies #anonymoussculpture #inspiration #mustsee