Candida Höfer in Mexico

Mexico as Seen by the Master Photographer Candida HöferIn 2014, Candida Höfer (b. Eberswalde, Germany, 1944; lives and works in Cologne) traveled through Mexico and photographed the interiors of old and new libraries, theaters, churches, poorhouses, and museums in nine cities. Generally organized by symmetry around a central axis, the compositions show deserted rooms, a characteristic feature of Höfer's work. The best-known exponent of the school of Hilla and Bernd Becher, who taught photography in Düsseldorf, she pursues her personal vision of the photographic representation of public spaces; beyond the functional significance of the settings, the pictures from Mexico convey a sense of timelessness and resistance to change. Other motifs and perspectives reveal a "new" Candida Höfer at work: old-fashioned offices, weather-beaten walls, and simple bodegas as well as a few deftly captured details of façades and floors.

Uta Grosenick, geb. 1960, Studium der Kunstgeschichte, Germanistik und Theaterwissenschaften, lebt seit 1996 als freie Herausgeberin und Autorin in Köln.

Buch (Hardcover), Deutsch, 144 Seiten