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PUBLISHER
DelMonico Books/High Museum of Art/The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.75 x 10.75 in. / 192 pgs / 49 color / 96 duotone.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Forthcoming

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2023 p. 29   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781636810973 TRADE
List Price: $55.00 CDN $77.00 GBP £47.00

AVAILABILITY
Awaiting stock

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Atlanta, GA
High Museum of Art, 03/24/23–08/13/23

Kansas City, MO
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 09/16/23–02/11/24

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Evelyn Hofer: Eyes on the City

Edited with text by Gregory J. Harris, April M. Watson. Foreword by Rand Suffolk, Julián Zugazagoitia. Text by Brandi T. Summers.

Evelyn Hofer: Eyes on the City

How Hofer used the photobook form to chronicle American and European cities in an era of postwar transformation

Evelyn Hofer was a highly innovative photographer whose prolific career spanned five decades. Despite her extraordinary output, she was underrecognized during her lifetime and was notably referred to by New York Times art critic Hilton Kramer as “the most famous unknown photographer in America.” She made her greatest impact through a series of photobooks, published throughout the 1960s, devoted to European and American cities, including Florence, London, New York, Washington and Dublin, and a book focused on the country of Spain.
Comprising more than 100 photographs in both black and white and color, Eyes on the City accompanies the artist’s first major museum exhibition in the United States in over 50 years and is organized around her photobooks. The photographs feature landscapes and architectural views combined with portraiture, conveying the unique character and personality of these urban capitals during a period of intense structural, social and economic transformations after World War II.
Evelyn Hofer (1922–2009) was born in Germany and moved to New York in 1946. She was an early adopter of color photography and published assignments for many major magazines including Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Hofer collaborated with authors such as Mary McCarthy and V.S. Pritchett on several books, including The Stones of Florence (1959), London Perceived (1962) and Dublin: A Portrait (1967). She died in Mexico City.


Featured image is reproduced from 'Evelyn Hofer: Eyes on the City.'

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

Aperture

These images showcase her humane vision and technical virtuosity.

Wall Street Journal

William Meyers

Makes clear why Hofer was not a celebrity in her own time but should be now.

i-D

Sara Rosen

Searching for the transcendent resplendence of the mundane, the mystical truth of place that allows viewers to feel as though they are there, Evelyn elevated scenes of the everyday to the realm of fine art.

Evelyn Hofer: Eyes on the City

STATUS: Forthcoming | 7/4/2023

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EVELYN HOFER MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Evelyn Hofer: Eyes on the City

EVELYN HOFER: EYES ON THE CITY

DELMONICO BOOKS/HIGH MUSEUM OF ART/THE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART

ISBN: 9781636810973
USD $55.00
| CAN $77 UK £ 47

Pub Date: 7/4/2023
Forthcoming


Evelyn Hofer: Dublin

EVELYN HOFER: DUBLIN

STEIDL

ISBN: 9783958296329
USD $50.00
| CAN $69.95

Pub Date: 2/6/2024
Forthcoming


Evelyn Hofer: Encounters

EVELYN HOFER: ENCOUNTERS

STEIDL/GALERIE M, BOCHUM

ISBN: 9783958295636
USD $65.00
| CAN $90

Pub Date: 4/23/2019
Active | Out of stock