Factories for mining, carving, and refining of stones and minerals are structures from the 'Stone Age' of industrialization. Finding them all over the world, Bernd and Hilla Becher documented them in their signature style, leading us back to the times when physical labor developed from a craft into organized manufacturing.

Factories for mining, carving, and refining of stones and minerals are structures from the 'Stone Age' of industrialization. Finding them all over the world, Bernd and Hilla Becher documented them in their signature style, leading us back to the times when physical labor developed from a craft into organized manufacturing.

With a text by Lothar Schirmer