Candida Hofer

As far as the beauty goes in Candid Hofer's work, it is not just made through her photographic work, yes she captures these images in a fantastic way on a large format camera but it is the actual place that happens to be absolutely stunning.  Hofer has travelled around Europe and photographs the insides of Libraries and Opera Houses.  This image here at the top is probably one of the best in my eyes, purely because of the way the house looks and the way that huge curtain is pulled half up.  Places like this are so fascinating and beautiful, so I do think that with works like  this, if the subject is a good looking place, you are likely to have good looking images. 

I tend to think this with all of the American photographs.  I feel as if America had so much more photographic opportunity and has places that are more picturesque. But maybe thats just because I am not an American.  Maybe they think the same about the English Photographer. 

The reason Candid Hofer's work has relevance to my own Ideas is because she goes round to all of these different countries and places and photographs the 'same' thing.  She photographs either Opera House's or Libraries in each of the places.  Because every single opera house and Library is different, that outcomes can have completely different looks.  This is the reason behind my work and what I will be trying to convey.  I want to show that the 'same' thing can have a totally different outcome and look from one already taken before.  If the subject matter I choose are places of things right next to each other, this could be interesting because the outcomes could look so different. 

Candida Hofer's work is beautiful, and the large format camera captures everything in sharp focus which makes her images stand out even more. I would like to think of a subject matter that looks good when looking directly at the front, like these images here. I want to have a frontal composition to also capture the document side to architectural landscape imagery.  

 The last thing I want to mention about Hofer's work is how it is all in colour, I do not think that the images would have looked if they were shot as black and white images, the colours really make different parts of the room stand out.  I can already say that whatever my subject and photo series is going to be of, I can see myself using black and white.  I can see this because I would like them to all look the similar, and to show their difference's, if I kept my subject in colour I do not think they would flow well together.