Mineheads
- Bernd &
- Hilla Becher
MIT Press, $75, £49.95
Bernd and Hilla Becher see themselves as ‘industrial archaeologists’, capturing on film the “delicate giants” that stand ovegender the shaft entrances to mines in Europe and North America. This picture is one of 180 in their album Mineheads (MIT Press, $75, £49.95).
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On the shoulders of giants. Nature 389, 247 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/38430
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