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Libraries

Candida Höfer Schirmer/Mosel Schirmer/Mosel
For almost 30 years Candida Höfer has photographed interiors, mostly representational spaces accessible to the public, such as staircases, lobbies, reading halls or exhibition spaces. Rather than staging them, she takes their picture in the state...
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Som Journal 3

Gordon Bunshaft, Diane Ghirardo, Lisa Hutton, Jane Wernick Hatje Cantz Publishers Hatje Cantz Publishers
This third issue in a continuing series presents recent work by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, one of the world's largest and most influential architecture, urban design, engineering, and interior architecture firms. SOM places the firm's production...
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XL-Photography: Art Collection Neue Borse

Jean-Christophe Ammann, Nobuyoshi Araki, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Martin Liebscher, Inge Rambow, Jorg Sasse, Gunther Forg, Andreas Gursky, Axel Hutte, Bernhard, Jone Elissa Scherf, Gunter Lorenz, Dirk Snauwaert Hatje Cantz Publishers Hatje Cantz Publishers
Featuring established and emerging photographers including Thomas Ruff, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth, Nobuyoshi Araki, Anna and Bernhard Blume, Baltasar Burkhard, Gnter Farg, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hafer, Axel Htte,...
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Candida Hofer And Martin Kippenberger: Venice Biennale 2003

Martin Kippenberger Walther Konig Walther Konig
The curator in his essay and the two artists in their work have one thing in common: the question of space. In the 1990s, Kippenberger had the idea (documented here through drawings and a poster) of an underground network encircling the whole world....
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Architecture without Shadow

Abalos & Enguita, Joerg Bader, Catherine Hurzeler, Hans Irrek, Martin Tschanz, Gloria Moure, Barry Schwabsky, Gunther Forg, Andreas Gursky Poligrafa Poligrafa
Architecture has always been a central subject matter for photographers. For most of the 20th century, however, the practice of architectural photography has been a professional endeavor; anonymous photographs taken for clients for specific,...
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Candida Hofer: Weimar

Candida Hofer Schirmer/Mosel Schirmer/Mosel
The German city of Weimar, home to illustrious Renaissance and Baroque artists such as Cranach and Bach, became a major place of pilgrimage in the 18th century. With her famous library and with distinguished literary circles, Duchess Anna Amalia...
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Candida Hofer: Louvre

Henri Loyrette, Marie-Laure Bernadac Schirmer/Mosel Schirmer/Mosel
The architectural history of the Louvre stretches back to the early 13th century. A comparatively modest royal fortress, it became the royal residence under François I, friend and patron of Leonardo da Vinci. Louis XIV turned the Louvre into a...
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Friedrich Christian Flick Collection Im Hamburger Bahnof

Eugen Blume, Peter Fischli, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Marcel Broodthaers, Marcel Duchamp, Marlene Dumas, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham, Duane Hanson, Jeff Koons, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon, Charles Ray Dumont Dumont
This is, quite possibly, one of the world's best designed art books. Featured within its pages are works from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection--one of the world's most significant (and yes, controversial) collections of contemporary art. But...
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Candida Hofer: Architecture of Absence

Constance Glenn, Virginia Heckert, Mary-Kay Lombino Aperture Aperture
Candida Höfer creates meticulously composed images of public and institutional spaces marked with the richness of human activity, yet largely devoid of human presence. Whether a photograph of a national library or a lounge at Volkswagen's...
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