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Word: wikingsmuseum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2001-2001
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...documentary aim. In several of the library photographs, we can almost make out the titles on the sides of the books, but not quite. The size almost seems to have been chosen with this aim in mind. This aim crystallizes when "Deichmanske Bibliothek Oslo III" is juxtaposed with "Wikingsmuseum Oslo I," which portrays an old Norse ship that leaps out of the frame, prow-forward. The singularity of purpose in this image, taken with the well-composed light streaming in from windows, imparts a striking ecclesiastical quality to the work. Hofer refrains, however, from photographing places of worship--an absence...

Author: By Konstantin P. Kakaes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Industiral Chic: Candida Hofer's Photographs | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

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