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Farms

Bernhard Fuchs

出版	Koenig, 2011
主題	Photography / Individual Photographers / Monographs
ISBN	38633506269783863350628
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LsmmH0nADUwC&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Fuchs's collection focuses on farms, recording the gradual changes they have undergone over time. One would be hard pressed to find another photographer whose work is as suffused with peace and tranquility than that of this protégé of Bernd and Hiller Becher. His photographs, in their patience and reticence, are as beautiful as nature itself. 'Time and again on walks in the area around Helfenberg I have been confronted with the continuous changes happening to the small farms there. Remotely located in the hilly landscape of the Mühhlviertel, these are mainly mixed-farming operations, something that is reflected in the architecture of the buildings and the forms of the adjacent plots. The climate is bleak, the soils rather meagre. Arable fields, woodland and grassland for the grazing of livestock, mostly dairy cows, are characteristic of the area. Most of the farms are run as secondary sources of income and are passed down from generation to generation. However, structural changes have also taken their toll here: new laws require that stalls and keeping conditions be reorganised, the cost of necessary investment is rising and farmers often struggle to find successors to take over their farms. As such, many of these small farms have been abandoned in recent times.'