Candida Höfer in Mexico

ISBN-13: 9783954761395 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 144 str.

Opis

In 2014, Candida Hofer (b. Eberswalde, Germany, 1944; lives and works in Cologne) traveled to Mexico, visiting the eight cities Ciudad de Mexico, Guadalajara, Guanajuato, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tepotzotlan, 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 Dusseldorf--she is now the best-known of their students--others show a -new- Candida Hofer: old-fashioned offices, weather-beaten walls, and simple stores as well as a few expertly captured details of facades, floors, and interiors. With an essay by the Mexican historian and economist Jose N. Iturriaga.

Mexico as Seen by the Master Photographer Candida HöferIn 2014, Candida Höfer (b. Eberswalde, Germany, 1944; lives and works in Cologne) traveled through Mexico and photographed the interiors of old and new libraries, theaters, churches, poorhouses, and museums in nine cities. Generally organized by symmetry around a central axis, the compositions show deserted rooms, a characteristic feature of Höfer's work. The best-known exponent of the school of Hilla and Bernd Becher, who taught photography in Düsseldorf, she pursues her personal vision of the photographic representation of public spaces; beyond the functional significance of the settings, the pictures from Mexico convey a sense of timelessness and resistance to change. Other motifs and perspectives reveal a "new" Candida Höfer at work: old-fashioned offices, weather-beaten walls, and simple bodegas as well as a few deftly captured details of façades and floors.

O autorze

Uta Grosenick, geb. 1960, Studium der Kunstgeschichte, Germanistik und Theaterwissenschaften, lebt seit 1996 als freie Herausgeberin und Autorin in Köln.