Candida Höfer in Mexico
By: editors: Uta Grosenick, Herbert Burkert ; text, José N. Iturriaga ; translation: Katja Naumann, Douglas Prats
Contributors: Grosenick, Uta, editor; Burkert, Herbert (Curator), editor; Iturriaga de la Fuente, José N., 1946- writer of text; Naumann, Katja, translator; Prats, Douglas, translator
Publisher: Distanz; OMR
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Berlin; Mexico
Language: ger
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9783954761395
Subjects: Interior decoration; Architectural photography; Public buildings; Pictorial works; Interior architecture
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 best known of their students others show a "new" Candida Höfer: old-fashioned offices, weather-beaten 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 Jose N. Iturriaga.
Notes: Texts in German and English.