Candida Höfer - Mortier Gérard
Paris Opera. Photographs
KORTE INHOUD
In her most recent cycle, Candida H?fer captures two Paris opera houses: the neoclassicist Palais Garnier (1875), original "Phantom of the Opera" site, and the modern-style Op?ra Bastille (1989). Devoid of people, as usual, foyers, orchestras, stages, wings, and boxes evoke the stories, the music, the performers and the audience during a night at the opera.
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2006Uitgever: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag80 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte: 340x265ISBN-10: 3829602308ISBN-13: 9783829602303Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Candida H fer?s works have something timeless about them, and opera is perhaps the most timeless cultural delight. Having dedicated a photographic series to the cathedrals of knowledge that are libraries, H fer in her most recent cycle captures opera houses, the palaces of performing arts. H fer?s earlier pictures of public spaces?libraries, lecture halls, museums, meeting rooms?forever devoid of people, made us sense the presence of those absent. Her opera photographs take us one step beyond: empty foyers,...
