Candida Hofer
Psychology of the social architecture
Her photographs are taken from a classic
straight-on frontal angle or seek a diagonal in the composition.[6] She tends to shoot each actionless room from an elevated
vantage point near one wall so that the far wall is centered within the
resulting image. From her earliest creations, she has been interested in
representing public spaces such as museums, libraries, national archives, or
opera houses devoid of all human presence
Her pictures are interesting as the
geometry of the photographs are perfect, each is exactly the same, yet
different as each building is different. They explore the social world we live
in. One cannot go about their daily lives without coming into direct contact
with different buildings and different styles, all this subconscious underlying
our day to day activities has an effect on who we are.
Its hard to pick a favourite Candida Hofer
image, as they are all technically perfect and taken from similar viewpoints,
they are all the same, to pick one would just be to pick my favourite
aesthetically pleasing interior. I feel as if each pthotgraph is the perfect
result, that she could have gone to the same building on any day and walked
around the entire space, and each time she would take precisely the same shot.
I researched Candida Hofer because I have ideas of taking geometric photographs, this is something that interests me in my own photography.
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