German photographer Candida H fer makes large-format photographs of empty interiors and social spaces that capture the "psychology of social architecture." In this small volume, her photographs of libraries maintain their monumental feel. They are sober and restrained, disturbed by neither visitors nor users, though H fer forgoes any staging of the locations. As Michael Kimmelman writes in The New York Times, "Ms. H fer is a straight photographer whose humanity and improvisatory spirit come across if we are patient enough to appreciate the serendipity of her light, the subtlety of her color and the quiet, melancholy pleasure she seems to take in finding, as if almost by chance, poetry in institutional form."
Born in 1944, German photographer Candida H fer is a former student of Bernd and Hilla Becher's at the Dusseldorf Art Academy. Her work was recently seen at a one-person show at the ICA Philadelphia.
- ISBN10 8877572124
- ISBN13 9788877572127
- Publish Date 1 November 2007
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 8 June 2021
- Publish Country IT
- Imprint Hopefulmonster Editore Srl
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 60
- Language English