Candida Höfer explores built spaces in her photography. Her world-famous interiors focus on libraries, museums, restaurants, theatres, and other public spaces, allowing us to experience architecture in a new way.

In comparison with photographic interiors from the Kunstbibliothek’s Photography Collection, which is over 150 years old, a dialogue develops between applied photography and artistic work.

The total of around 200 works – which also include photographs from zoological gardens and hitherto little-known series from Höfer’s early work, as well as their rarely or never before shown counterparts from the Photography Collection – invite visitors to take a new look at Höfer’s work and the Photography Collection, but also at the medium of photography itself.

This catalogue is published on occasion of the exhibition ‘Image and Space. Candida Höfer in dialogue with the photography collection of the Kunstbibliothek’, 25 Mar -28 Aug 2022, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin.

English and German text.

Limited Edition.

Co-published with Ralph Goertz.