Dublin
Evelyn Hofer
Steidl
English
Hardcover
152 pages
210 x 280 mm
2023
ISBN 9783958296329
The starting point for this book is Evelyn Hofer’s Dublin: A Portrait, which features an in-depth essay by V. S. Pritchett and photos by Hofer, and enjoyed great popularity upon its original publication in 1967. Dublin: A Portrait is an example of Hofer’s perhaps most important body of work, her city portraits: books that present comprehensive prose texts by renowned authors alongside her self-contained visual essays with their own narratives. Dublin: A Portrait was the last book published in this renowned series.
The newly conceived Dublin focuses on the photos Hofer took on behalf of the publisher Harper & Row in 1965 and 1966. In Dublin Hofer repeatedly turned her camera to sights of the city, but mainly to the people who constituted its essence. She made numerous portraits—be they of writers and public figures or unknown people in the streets. Her portraits give evidence of an intense, respectful engagement with her subjects, who participate as equal partners in the process of photographing.
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About the Artist
Born in 1922 in Marburg an der Lahn. Germany, Evelyn Hofer grew up in Switzerland and Spain. Before her family immigrated to Mexico, she completed an apprenticeship at Studio Bettina in Zurich and took lessons with Hilmar Lokay and Robert Spreng in Basel, as well as with Hans Finsler in Zurich. In Mexico City Hofer embarked on a freelance career and eventually moved to New York City in 1946 where she photographed for the rest of her life. After working with Alexey Brodovitch for Harper’s Bazaar and Alexander Liberman for Vogue, her career took a decisive turn when photographing for Mary McCarthy’s The Stones of Florence (1959). Various collaborative books with noted authors (V.S. Pritchett and James Morris among them) about London (1962), Spain (1964), New York (1965), Washington (1966) and Dublin (1967) followed, as well as the literary biography Emerson in Italy (1989). In the 1970s, she focused her camera on society-related subjects with essays for Life International, The New York Times Magazine and The Sunday Times Magazine. In addition to these works and to portraits and series on writers and other well-known figures, Hofer photographed numerous interiors and houses for magazines including House and Garden and Connoisseur. Her late work mainly focused on subjects that were of particular interest to her, such as still lifes. Hofer died in Mexico City in 2009.
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About the Publisher
Born in Göttingen in 1950, Gerhard Steidl began working as a printer and designer in 1969. Soon the customers of his screen-printing workshop included Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers and Nam June Paik, among other well-known artists. In 1972, the first Steidl book Befragung der documenta (Questioning documenta) was published. From political non-fiction he then expanded into literature and selected books on art and photography.
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