# @drawingcenter on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BvCVj1HAY2N
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16045022-drawingcenter-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/00ef4c6418.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-03-15T16:58:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction.
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Candida Höfer (b. 1944) is a German photographer and previous student of Bernd and Hilla Becher: a collaborative pair of artists that documented industrial architecture through black and white photographic series, or “typologies”, that focused on structures with exactitude and neutrality. Höfer, informed by this approach to documentary photography, captures the interiority of empty public buildings like libraries, museums, zoos, and opera houses in large-format color photographs that focus stunningly on the space’s architectural elements, patterns, and surfaces. The images are always of the structure itself; people, or signs of people, are totally absent which brings specific attention to the space. The interior becomes the complete subject of the photograph, as Höfer explains: “I see my work to some extent as portraits of spaces; this is also why I consider myself not to be an architecture photographer; they would focus on other things.” The refined exactitude, technical precision, and supreme clarity of Höfer’s images are renditions of places that are empty, but full of beauty, history, and everything the past left behind.
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#CandidaHöfer
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Image: Photograph by Pérez Cabo. Courtesy of El País, 2010.

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candidahöfer, artistinaction

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