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Candida Höfer: Architecture of Absence

Candida Höfer Photo courtesy of The University Art Museum

Candida Höfer: Architecture of Absence UNITED STATES LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA  •  The University Art Museum  •  Ongoing   For over thirty years, German photographer Candida Höfer has been photographing rooms in public places that are centers of cultural life, such as libraries, museums, theatres, cafés, universities, and historic houses and palaces. Among the unique aspects of Höfer's work is the fact that typically the people who would inhabit these spaces are absent, thus enabling her to discover in the spaces what she describes as an "almost magical presence of things." Candida Håfer is the senior member of the Becher circle, the first class of students-including Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, and Axel Hètte-to study at the Dusseldorf Academy under the tutelage of renowned professor Bernd Becher in the 1970s and 1980s. The University Art Museum Web Site Contact: Tel: (1) 562 985 57 61 email this item to a friend