Liverpool XIII
Candida Höfer is a prominent member of the “Düsseldorf School,” a cohort of photographers, including Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Ruff, who studied with Bernd Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is best known for her ongoing series of large-scale color photographs of empty libraries, hotels, museums, concert halls, palaces, and other buildings. (There are two works from this series in the Met’s collection.) Before attending the Kunstakademie, Höfer worked for newspapers as a portrait photographer, producing a series on poets in Liverpool, England, in 1968. During that year, she also created an extraordinary series of black-and-white street photographs in and around Liverpool.
Artwork Details
- Title: Liverpool XIII
- Artist: Candida Höfer (German, born 1944)
- Date: 1968
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: Sheet: 8 × 8 in. (20.3 × 20.3 cm)
Frame: 14 × 14 in. (35.5 × 35.5 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2020
- Object Number: 2020.202
- Rights and Reproduction: © Candida Höfer/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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