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Candida H fer : Op ra de Paris
, Schirmer/Mosel, 2006 Hardcover, 80 pages, ENG / GER / FR , 345 x 270 x 15 mm, dustjacket, in very good condition, illustr. with coloured photos., Large format , ISBN 9783829602303.
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).
