Candida Höfer - Monographie ("Monograph") - 2003

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IMPRESSIVE MONOGRAPH by Candida Höfer, one of the most famous students of Bernd and Hilla Becher at "Kunstakademie Düsseldorf".

Candida Höfer studied in the legendary first class of Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher together with Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth and Axel Hütte.

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Schirmer and Mosel, Munich. 2003.

Hardback with original dustjacket. 265 x 285 mm. 252 pages. 209 colour photos. Photos: Candida Höfer. Design: Michel Mallard Studio/Claudia Roethlisberger. Text: Michael Krüger. Text in French and German.

Condition:
Book inside and outside excellent, fresh and flawless; clean with no previous owner marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket fresh with little trace of use, complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts; front and spine excellent, a few light and one bigger scratch on the rear side. Overall fine condition.

Very beautiful monograph by the pupil of the first Becher class with original dustjacket - in fresh condition.

"Bernhard 'Bernd' Becher (1931-2007), and Hilla Becher, born Wobeser (1934-2015), were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures, often organised in grids. As the founders of what has come to be known as the 'Becher school' or the "Düsseldorf School of Photography", they influenced generations of documentary photographers and artists in Germany and abroad. They were awarded the Erasmus Prize and the Hasselblad Award."

The Düsseldorf School of Photography refers to a group of photographers who studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the mid 1970s under the influential photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher.
Known for their rigorous devotion to the 1920s German tradition of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), the Bechers’ photographs were clear, black and white pictures of industrial archetypes (pitheads, water towers, coal bunkers).
Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth modified the approach of their teachers by applying new technical possibilities and a personal and contemporary vision, while retaining the documentary method their tutors propounded.