Candida Höfer
Subtitle: em Portugal
By: Candida Höfer ; textos de Jóse Saramago, Shelley Rice = Candida Höfer : in Portugal /  Candida Höfer ; texts by Jóse Saramago, Shelley Rice.
Contributors: Höfer, Candida, 1944-; Rice, Shelley.; Centro Cultural de Belém.
Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel; Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [ Munich]; [Lisbon]
Language: por; eng
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9783829602792; 9789728944094
Subjects: Höfer, Candida, d 1944- -- Exhibitions.; Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions.; Photography of interiors -- Portugal -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Em Portugal; In Portugal
Description: Portugal is a small country with a great past. Vasco da Gama's discovery of the sea route to India turned the independent kingdom of Portugal into the leading sea and colonial power in the Western world. Lisbon, presumably founded by the Phoenicians, was one of Europe's richest cities in the heyday of the Age of Discovery. Today, Portugal's monasteries and churches, its palaces, libraries, opera houses, and museums which have survived evoke past glory with immense murals composed of colored tiles and ornate sculptural décor. Photographic imaging work with the German photographer Candida Hofer's photographs from Portugal of theaters, lecture halls, palaces, churches, archives and more.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition at the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon.

Includes index.

Text in Portugese and English.