Signed; Candida Höfer - A Monograph - 2003

Rare signed copy by Candida Höfer (who now refuses to sign for many years) of this original English edition of this impressive 252-page monograph featuring 209 full-page color photographs. Unavailable elsewhere online in a signed copy. Hardcover edition with illustrated dust jacket.

Book from my personal collection that I have kept with the utmost care. Very protected packaging and insured postal tracking.

Since she embarked on her first photographic projects in the early 1970s, Candida Höfer has primarily been interested in certain public spaces, favoring places of knowledge and culture such as libraries, museums and natural history museums, theaters, but also large restaurant halls, hotels, banks, public baths, and so on. A graduate of the Düsseldorf School, she practices photography with very large format cameras, and the precision of her gaze highlights many details, combining a poetic sense of symmetry and light.

Architecture of absence, these photographs depict vast architectural spaces devoid of any human presence, and this absence allows the photographer to perfectly reveal the architectural quality of the places as they were designed and their lines of force. Candida Höfer, however, pays particular attention to the objects within these architectural spaces and to how they blend into or disturb these spaces.