• Bernd and Hilla Becher (photographers)

View of a blast furnace head of Sacilor-Sollac steel mill, Rombas, Lorraine, France

1979

- 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 indicate that the group of ten photographs PH1987:1032 - PH1987:1041 of views of blast furnace heads should be exhibited in two rows arranged from left to right and top to bottom in numerical order according to the photographers' inscriptions "K 1" through "K 10". Photograph PH1987:1032 would therefore be at the far left of the upper row, while photograph PH1987:1041 would be at the far right of the bottom row (Kicken Pauseback, 1987).

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 40.5 x 30.9 cm

PH1987:1035

• exterior view

inscribed, numbered, signed and dated - by the photographers, in graphite, on the print, verso, c.: "K 4" [circled]; "6" [circled; erased]; "Bernd Becher / Hilla Becher"; l.l. to b.: "SASILOR-SOLLAC, ROMBAS, LORRAINE, FRANCE"; and l.r.: "1979" imprinted - in grey ink, on the print, verso, throughout: "Agfa" [diagonally; underlined twice]

France

• architecture
• ingénierie

• blast furnace
• steel mill

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