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Candida Höfer (German, b.1944)
LOT ID: 66504
Spiegelkantine Hamburg III, 2000

Chromogenic Print (C-print)
19.7 х 19.7 in. cm.
Signed, numbered
Edition 43/100
Lot description
50 x 50 cm - framed 74 x 74 cm
Candida Höfer is admired for her sober photographs of interior spaces, often in public buildings that are centers of cultural life, such as schools, libraries, churches, and museums.
Höfer is considered a member of the Düsseldorf School, which evolved under the influence of Bernd and Hilla Becher. From her mentors, she acquired a preference for stark images and subjects that could be developed as series. Her photographs are not merely documentary, but reveal repeated forms within public spaces, unearthing patterns of order, logic, and disruption, imposed on interiors by their absent creators and inhabitants. In Höfer's own words, her photographs capture the “psychology of social architecture.”
Spiegelkantine III depicts the canteen of prominent German magazine, Spiegel. A room meticulously put together and marked by the richness of human activity, yet devoid of human presence.
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