Vermont 1973 Galleria Forma, Genoa Nigel Greenwood Inc., London Sonnabend Gallery, New York 1974 Institute of Contemporary Art, London (traveled) San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, California Sonnabend Gallery, New York 1975 Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn Museum of Modern Art, New York Sonnabend Gallery, New York Galleria Casteli, Milan Legacy In response to a post-war Germanic period, Becher's "subjective photography" tries to humanize, naturalize, and synthesize Germany's history and idealization within the industrialized comportment. The Machine Age brought a visual pace that was "ever-accelerating, ever expanding" and highly juxtaposed to the past, more subdued, Germanic lifestyle. Becher sought to capture the underlying function and organization of this new ideal by ultimately picturing these differences in industrialization. Becher's work is often said to be continuous in that each photograph cannot stand on its own; Becher's work is a body of work and a thematic response in framing the political, enlightening, and responsive post-war Germany. Becher's work was innovative in that, by capturing the post-war, she has ultimately defined Germany before mass industry and by the idealized past. Stimson, from Tate Paper, writes "by shooting the grand icons of the Machine Age 'straight-on' so they do not, they have claimed 'hide or exaggerate or depict anything in an untrue fashion', by committing themselves to an ethic of representation free of bogus political elevation or degradation, they realize one leg of their generation's postmodern affect". Such is the voice of Hilla and Bernd's work: they sought to represent Germany without ideology and without a politically charged atmosphere. Awards 1966: British Council grant to photograph mines in Nottinghamshire and south Wales. 2002: Erasmus Prize from the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, Netherlands, for contribution to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, awarded to the Bechers. 2014: , sponsored by the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland, awarded to Hilla Becher. See also List of German women artists References 1934 births 2015 deaths German women photographers People from Potsdam Architectural photographers Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni German contemporary artists