Candida Hofer: Paris Opera

Author: Gerard Morrier

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  • : $129.95 AUD
  • : 9783829602303
  • : Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH
  • : Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH
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  • : May 2006
  • : 340mm X 270mm X 14mm
  • : Germany
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  • : Gerard Morrier
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  • : Hardback
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  • : French; German; English
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  • : 80
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  • : 45 colour illustrations
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Barcode 9783829602303
9783829602303

Description

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, orchestras, stages, wings, and boxes make us imagine both theprotagonists--performers and audience--and the fictitious figures, plots, and places that populate these venues during a night at the opera. In her most recent publication Candida H fer portrays two Paris opera houses that are exemplary for their age and time: the neoclassicist Palais Garnier (1875), original Phantom of the Opera site, and the modern-style Op ra Bastille (1989).