EXHIBITION
Evelyn Hofer.
"One reason I like to work with a big camera is that I don't like to spy on people...I respect them and I want them to respect what we are doing together." - Evelyn Hofer
"I always prefer to take rather long exposures. Like a second. I feel that I get the attention of the person more with long exposures. The person being photographed has to concentrate too. We get our concentration together, and then something happens." - Evelyn Hofer
Born in Marburg, Germany, in 1922, Evelyn and her family left Germany following the Nazi's rise to power. Moving to Geneva in Switzerland when Evelyn was 11, they later moved to Spain, and finally settled in Mexico in the early 1940s.
Evelyn's photography career begins: Hofer’s early training included apprenticeships in two commercial portrait studios, and an induction in photographic theories and techniques with the German-born Swiss photographer Hans Finsler in Switzerland.
Finsler was a pioneer of the ‘New Objectivity’ movement in German art that arose during the 1920s as a reaction against expressionism. Photographer August Sander was also a member of the group.
This formative period acquainted her with modernist theories of aesthetics and technical and chemical processes as well as traditions which considered applied and fine art photography on an equal footing.
