Candida Höfer

Candida Höfer was born in 1944 in Eberswalde, Province of Brandenburg, Germany. In 1968, she began working for newspapers as a portrait photographer and in 1970, became as an assistant to Werner Bokelberg. She later attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1973 to 1982, where she studied film toon meer under Ole John and, from 1976, photography under Bernd Becher. She was one of the first of Becher's students to use color, showing her work as slide projections. In 1979, she began taking color photographs of interiors of public buildings, such as offices, banks, and waiting rooms. Her breakthrough work was a series of photographs showing guest workers in Germany, after which she concentrated on the subjects of Interiors, Rooms and Zoological Gardens. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder