| Candida Höfer in Mexico Contributor(s): Grosenick, Uta (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3954761394 ISBN-13: 9783954761395 Publisher: Distanz OUR PRICE: $61.20 Product Type: Hardcover Language: German Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Individual Photographers - Monographs |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 10.9" W x 12.9" (3.25 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 2014, Candida Höfer (b. Eberswalde, Germany, 1944; lives and works in Cologne) traveled to Mexico, visiting the eight cities Ciudad de México, Guadalajara, Guanajuato, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tepotzotlán, Tlacochahuaya, and Tonantzintla, where she photographed old and new libraries, theaters and opera houses, churches and museums, poorhouses and palaces. Most of the pictures are organized by symmetry along a central axis, a characteristic feature of her art. If these works suggest her training with Hilla and Bernd Becher, who taught photography in Düsseldorf--she is now the bestknown of their students--others show a new Candida Höfer: oldfashioned offices, weatherbeaten walls, and simple stores as well as a few expertly captured details of façades, floors, and interiors. With an essay by the Mexican historian and economist José N. Iturriaga. |
