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In Candida Höfer's photographic work, the beginnings of which lie in the early 1970s, things that happen everyday, short-lived phenomena never played a role. Her work has timeless, even classical quality. This may have something to do with her subject matter. For decades she has been photographing public spaces such as libraries, museums, lecture halls, theatre entrances all over the world. This thematic continuity is in keeping with ire, radically consistent photographic approach, by means of which she aligns herself with the tradition of New Objectivity. Candida Höfer`s public spaces are always uninhabited - undisturbed by visitors or people living and working in these buildings. The architecture, the interior and the atmosphere seem to lead their own life in an ascetic or even baroque sense. Completely self-contained, they only allude to a human presence. in: Candida Höfer, Photographs 2004-2005, catalogue Kestnergesellschaft Hannover, Bonn 2005