Citation
"Coal Mine, Diergardt, Rheinhausen, Ruhr District, from the portfolio "Walls and Conduits" (Bernd and Hilla Becher)(Bernd Becher)(Hilla Becher) , 1992.385,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/221064.
The black and white photolithograph shows a section of a brick building with a section of a multi-paned window visible in the upper left corner. Two large pipes emerge from the right corner of the building and angle down to run across the picture to the right side, smaller pipes run across and up the building on the right. There are two large smoke stacks on the right side of the picture, a portion of a brick wall runs along the bottom of the picture plane from left to right.