Industrial Scenes by Bernd & Hilla Becher

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Things look good in a grid. The format adds order, symmetry, while providing a pleasing place of conformity from which to spot the points of difference. For Bernd and Hilla Becher, the artists behind the latest Most Loved post, the grid was a photographic construct that allowed them to display their chosen subjects – water towers, gas tanks, cooling towers – in isolated portrait form, highlighting their stylistic...