BOOKS ON THE ARTIST CANDIDA HOFER
Kruger, Michael (text). CANDIDA HOFER Monographie. 252 pp., 209 color plates. With numbered, limited edition print. 4to, cloth in slipcase. Munich, Schirmer Mosel, 2003.
Text in French and German. Limited edition photo is of leather-bound books on a shelf.
Item nr. 107864
$ 1,250.00
Glenn, Constance, Mary-Kay Lombino, and Virginia Heckert. CANDIDA HOFER: Architecture of Absence. 112 pp., roughly 65 color plates. 4to, boards. New York, Aperture, in association with Long Beach, University Art Museum, California State University, and West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, 2004.
These photographs of public and institutional spaces present a universe of interiors which reveal patterns of order, logic, and disruption imposed by absent creators and inhabitants.
Item nr. 112711
$ 35.00
Kruger, Michael (essay). CANDIDA HOFER: A Monograph. 252 pp., 209 color plates. 4to, cloth. Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, 2003.
Item nr. 112869
$ 85.00
Hofer, Candida. CANDIDA HOFER: Libraries. Introductory essay by Umberto Eco. 72 pp. Illustrated with 137 colour photographic plates. 4to., bound in publisher's grey paper over boards with pictorial dust-jacket. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2005.
Images of famous libraries around the world , featuring the Escorial in Spain, the Villa Medici in Rome, the Hamburg University Library, The British Library, the Bibliothèque National de France in Paris, the Pierpont Morgan Library, The Bodleian Library at Oxford, the Beinecke Library at Yale, the Rijksmuseum library among others.
Candida Höfer (1944- ) artist and professional photographer from Germany, has exhibted her work in numerous group and solo shows throughout Europe and the US. Her photographs for this volume capture the libraries as "splendid and intimate cathedrals of knowledge," empty of people, and thus focused on the objects, the books and the libraries as aesthetic images.
Item nr. 117335
$ 85.00
Mortier, Gerard (text). CANDIDA HOFER: Opera de Paris. 80 pp., 31 color plates. 4to, cloth. Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, in association with Paris, Opera National de Paris, 2006.
In this publication, Candida Hofer portrays two Paris opera houses (empty foyers, stages, wings, and boxes) that are exemplary for their time and age: The neoclassicist Palais Garnies (1875) and the modern-style Opéra Bastille (1989). Text in English, French and German.
Item nr. 119241
$ 49.95
Loyrette, Henri and Marie-Laure Bernadec (texts). CANDIDA HOFER: Louvre. 15 pp. text, followed by 18 color plates. 4to, cloth. Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, 2006.
The Louvre, the world's largest museum, opened it's doors to the public four years after the French Revolution. Taken during the days when the museum was closed, these images of the Louvre's empty salles convey the richness of history that imbues both the art and the architecture. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Louvre. Text in English, German, and French.
Item nr. 120637
$ 49.95
Saramago, Jose and Shelley Rice. CANDIDA HOFER: Em Portugal - In Portugal. 128 pp., 83 color plates. 4to, cloth. Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, 2006.
Portugal's churches and monasteries, universities and libraries, and palaces and opera houses, among other places, are the focus of this book from the German photographer. It accompanies an exhibition at the Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon. Text in English and Portuguese.
Item nr. 122757
$ 125.00
Beyer, Marcel (text). CANDIDA HOFER: Dresden. 128 pp., roughly 50 color plates. 8vo, wraps. Cologne, Walther Koenig, 2006.
This small volume features some of the most monumental recent work by the German photographer. It includes over 50 stunning architectural interiors and details from some of the most important historical public institutions in Dresden. Text in German.
Item nr. 123135
$ 29.95
Wendermann, Gerda, and Wulf Kirsten (essays). CANDIDA HOFER: Weimar. 104 pp., 39 color plates. 4to, cloth. Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, 2007.
Item nr. 124796
$ 49.95
Eco, Umberto (essay). CANDIDA HOFER: Libraries. [Deluxe Limited Edition with Framed Print]. 272 pp., 137 color plates. 4to, cloth in slipcase with limited edition print. Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, 2005.
C-Print is Limburg Maastricht 2003 (church interior with table and chairs). Text in English. Limited edition of 100 numbered copies.
Item nr. 127968
$ 2,150.00
Heinzelmann, Markus and Agnes Husslein-Arco (preface) et al. CANDIDA HOFER: Projects: Done. 240 pages, roughly 375 color and b&w illustrations. 4to, wraps. Cologne, Walther König, 2009.
Exhibition in Leverkusen and Vienna. Text in English and German.
Item nr. 141186
$ 125.00
Tecce, Angela. CANDIDA HOFER: Napoli. 56 pages, 21 color plates. Small 4to, cloth. Munich, Schirmer/Moseli, 2009.
Exhibition in Naples. Text in English and German.
Item nr. 141325
$ 39.95
Burkert, Herbert, Luisa Castro, and Enrique Vila-Matas. CANDIDA HOFER: Spaces of Their Own. 208 pages, 112 color plates. 4to, cloth. Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, 2010.
Published in association with 2 exhibitions in Santiago de Compestela. Text in English.
Item nr. 143341
$ 68.00
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