She captured fascinating characters across the 20th century.
In her lifetime, Evelyn Hofer was underrated in photography circles mainly because she was seen as too “commercial.” But, the incredible body of work she left behind is challenging this assessment.that has just been released. Her intriguing and brilliantly-executed portraits of people from all over the world are simply too good to ignore.
“She was always studying the light,” Andreas Pauly, her former assistant, and executor of her estate, told thein 2010. “She had a little notebook and would write down when the light would be good, then she would come back at that time. It was rare she set up a camera and did something quickly.”Springtime, Washington, DC, 1965.
In the mid-1950s, Hofer began working with the writer Mary McCarthy who commissioned her to illustrate. So began a fruitful relationship that saw Hofer travel across the world capturing the sights of New York, Ireland, London, and Italy. Despite her travel photos being seen by millions of people on the pages of magazines and in books, Hofer, who died aged 87 in 2009, was not a prominent photographer in her lifetime.Chinatown II , New York, 1964.Clare Grafik, co-curator of a retrospective of Hofer’s work at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, thinks that the perceived commerciality of these commissions might have worked against Hofer being seen as a serious artist.
“Her color work, particularly her portraits of people in their urban settings, is so extraordinary that it’s difficult to understand why she is not more well known and appreciated,” Grafik“Through those books Hofer’s work undoubtedly reached a lot of people, [but] many readers perhaps did not take that much notice of the photographs other than as illustrations of the writing.
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