Alongside Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth, Candida Hofer (born 1944) belongs to the first generation of photographers that graduated from Bernd and Hilla Becher's famous class at the Dusseldorf Arts Academy in the early 1980s. Since then, Hofer has traveled the world, photographing at [...]

In this elegant volume of photographs, Candida Hofer portrays the empty rooms and galleries of the Louvre on days when it was closed to the public. In "Hofers" luminous colour photographs, the treasures of Western art enter into a silent yet eloquent dialogue with the architectural setting, the luxu[...]