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...students received the Philip Hofer Prize yesterday, an award given to students whose personal collections of books or works of art best represent the work of Philip Hofer '21, the founding curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and a former Secretary of the Fogg Art Museum...
Next time you consider throwing out that beloved collection of Marvel comic books you’ve been collecting since birth, think again. Like the winners of the Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting, you too could get paid for your passion. This year’s prizes were awarded to Ph.D. student Drew M. Massey and third-year graduate student Grete T. Viddal in a ceremony at Houghton Library yesterday. The prizes are given annually to one or several individuals whose collection of books or works of art exemplify “the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination?...
...Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany. According to his Web site, Bishop spent four years living in Germany, where he "spent most of his time learning the language, teaching English, drinking large quantities of wheat beer, and wooing a certain fraulein." The "fraulein" was Bishop's wife, Stephanie Hofer, who also teaches in Virginia Tech's German program...
...other contest, the Philip Hofer Prize, is awarded every other year and focuses on book and art collecting. It is administered through Houghton Library and is open to students at all of Harvard’s graduate schools...
...Dusseldorf. Among their other students were Thomas Ruff, Petra Wunderlich, and Andreas Gursky, who was recently featured in a profile by Calvin Tomkins in The New Yorker (January 22, 2001). The Bechers pioneered a type of detached objectivity in their photography. Despite their preference for black and white, Hofer, like many of their other students, has turned to color. This shift relieved Hoferof the burden of developing: in a 1994 interview in the Journal of Contemporary Art, she stated: "I have gone from black and white to color and now everything is very comfortable for me ... I did not like...