Monograph on the photography of Bernd & Hilla Becher. Essay by Klaus Bussmann. "The more than two-hundred striking duotone plates in Hilla and Bernd Becher's Industrial Façades continue the famous Düsseldorf photographers' formal investigation of industrial structures, in this case the frontal elevations of factory buildings. Like the Bechers's earlier books on water towers, blast furnaces, and gas tanks, Industrial Façades once again clearly displays their serenely cool, rigorous approach to the structures photograph as variations on an ideal form." -- publisher's statement.