Candida Höfer : architecture of absence / with essays by Constance W. Glenn, Mary-Kay Lombino and Virginia Heckert.
By: Glenn, Constance W. (Constance White)
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Contributor(s): Höfer, Candida | Lombino, Mary-Kay | Heckert, Virginia | California State University, Long Beach. Art Galleries | Norton Museum of Art | Brigham Young University. Museum of Art.
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BookPublisher: New York : Aperture Foundation in association with University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach and Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, c2004Description: 111 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.ISBN: 1931788480 .Other title: Architecture of absence.Subject(s): Höfer, Candida, 1944- -- Exhibitions | Photography of interiors -- Exhibitions | Libraries -- Pictorial worksDDC classification: 779.092 HÖF
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 779.092 HÖF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00063323 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Candida Hofer creates meticulously composed images of public and institutional spaces marked with the richness of human activity, yet largely devoid of human presence. Whether a photograph of a national library or a lounge at Volkswagen's headquarters, Hofer's images ask us to conduct distanced, disengaged examinations through the windows she creates. The collected images present a universe wholly constructed by human intention, unearthing patterns of order and logic imposed on these spaces by their absent creators and inhabitants. The Architecture of Absence examines Hofer's oeuvre and its relationship to the work of other noted students of renowned professors Bernd and Hilla Becher.
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the University Art Museum, College of the Arts, California State University, Long Beach, Jan. 25-Apr. 17, 2005, the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Fla., Oct. 15, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006, and the Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, Sept. 14, 2006-Jan. 6, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Candida Höfer was born in 1944 in Eberswalde, Province of Brandenburg, Germany. In 1968, she began working for newspapers as a portrait photographer and in 1970, became as an assistant to Werner Bokelberg. She later attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1973 to 1982, where she studied film under Ole John and, from 1976, photography under Bernd Becher. She was one of the first of Becher's students to use color, showing her work as slide projections. In 1979, she began taking color photographs of interiors of public buildings, such as offices, banks, and waiting rooms. Her breakthrough work was a series of photographs showing guest workers in Germany, after which she concentrated on the subjects of Interiors, Rooms and Zoological Gardens.(Bowker Author Biography)