View of blast furnaces of Usinor-Senelle steel mill, Longwy-Bas, Lorraine, France

People:

Bernd and Hilla Becher (photographers)

Title:

View of blast furnaces of Usinor-Senelle steel mill, Longwy-Bas, Lorraine, France

Date:

1985

Description:

- 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 located in the Lorraine region of France including: two views of the Sacilor-Sollac steel mill in Rombas (PH1987:1035 and PH1987:1068); two views of the Usinor-Senelle steel mill in Longwy-Bas (PH1987:1052 and PH1987:1069); and one view of a steel mill in Neuves-Maisons (PH1987:1067).
- 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).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

sheet: 31,1 x 40,5 cm

Reference number:

PH1987:1069

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed, numbered, signed and dated - by the photographers, in graphite, on the print, verso, c.: "P 10" [circled]; "Bernd Becher / Hilla Becher"; l.l. to b.: "USINOR-SENELLE, LONGWY-BAS FRANCE"; and l.r.: "1985" imprinted - in grey ink, on the print, verso, throughout: "Agfa" [diagonally; sideways; underlined twice]

Location:

France

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

blast furnaces
steel mill

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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