Libraries: Candida Höfer

This striking book shows the world's most beautiful libraries through Candida H fer's mesmerizing photographs. No one...
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Author: Umberto Eco
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Language: English
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Libraries: Candida Höfer by Eco, Umberto

Libraries: Candida Höfer

CHF 87.14

Libraries: Candida Höfer

CHF 87.14
Author: Umberto Eco
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
This striking book shows the world's most beautiful libraries through Candida H fer's mesmerizing photographs.

No one photographs spaces quite like Candida H fer and no one has captured better the majesty, stillness, and eloquence of libraries. Traveling around the world, H fer shows the exquisite beauty to be found in order, repetition, and form--rows of books, lines of desks, soaring shelves, and even stacks of paper create patterns that are both hypnotic and soothing. Photographed with a large-format camera and a small aperture, these razor-sharp images of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, the Escorial in Spain, Villa Medici in Rome, the Hamburg University library, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris, and the Museo Archeologico in Madrid, to name a few, communicate more than just the superb architecture. Glowing with subtle color and natural light, H fer's photographs, while devoid of people, shimmer with life and remind us again and again that libraries are more than just repositories for books. Umberto Eco's essay about his own attachment to libraries is the perfect introduction to an otherwise wordless, but sublimely reverent journey.

Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Published: 09/03/2019
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.65lbs
Size: 12.00h x 10.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9783791385617


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2019 pg. 86

About the Author
CANDIDA HÖFER is one of the world's most celebrated photographers. A student of Bernd and Hilla Becher, she is the recipient of the Sony 2018 Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award. She lives in Cologne, Germany.

UMBERTO ECO was an internationally renowned Italian novelist, critic, and university professor.

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