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(BECHER, BERND & HILLA). Celant, Germano & Sebastian Adler. La Jolla, CA: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1974. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine.. np (40pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Frye & Smith, Ltd. Published in conjunction with a 1974 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition, this is the austerely designed catalogue that accompanied the first American retrospective of photographic work of architectural typologies by the pioneering German husband and wife collaborators Bernd and Hilla Becher. A handsome example (entry No. 31 in the "ephemera et catalogues" bibliography of Antoine de Beaupre and Jean-Christophe Blaser's "Bernd und Hilla Becher: Printed Matter 1964/2013") showing just a bit of light overall wear and handling. LC 74-76639 Inventory Number: 020116