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Candida Hofer
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Description for Libraries
Hardcover. Contains Candida Hofer's famously ascetic images of the Escorial in Spain, the Whitney Museum and the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, Villa Medici in Rome and the Hamburg University Library, among others. Umberto Eco contributes an essay on libraries. Num Pages: 272 pages, 137 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AJB; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 306 x 255 x 29. Weight in Grams: 2122.
Nobody photographs libraries, those splendid and intimate cathedrals of knowledge, as beautifully as Candida Höfer. Her photographs are sober and restrained – the atmosphere is disturbed by neither visitors nor users, especially as she forgoes any staging of the locations. The emptiness is imbued with substance by a subtle attention to colour, and the prevailing silence instilled with a metaphysical quality that gives voice to the objects, over and above the eloquence of the furnishings or the pathos of the architecture.
This sumptuous volume contains Höfer’s famously ascetic images of the British Library in London, the Escorial ... Read more
Nobody photographs libraries, those splendid and intimate cathedrals of knowledge, as beautifully as Candida Höfer. Her photographs are sober and restrained – the atmosphere is disturbed by neither visitors nor users, especially as she forgoes any staging of the locations. The emptiness is imbued with substance by a subtle attention to colour, and the prevailing silence instilled with a metaphysical quality that gives voice to the objects, over and above the eloquence of the furnishings or the pathos of the architecture.
This sumptuous volume contains Höfer’s famously ascetic images of the British Library in London, the Escorial ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500543146
SKU
V9780500543146
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Ref
99-99
About Candida Hofer
Candida Hofer studied with Bernd Becher at the Dussedorf Academy of Art. Candida Hofer: A Monograph was published by Thames & Hudson in 2003. Umberto Eco is a writer, philosopher and professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna. His novel The Name of the Rose was an international bestseller.
Reviews for Libraries
'Breathtaking … brings out the scale and beauty of these temples of learning' - Sunday Telegraph