The Resonant Photography of Evelyn Hofer

Federico Alegría
8 min readMay 10, 2021
Portrait of Evelyn Hofer, 1951

Evelyn Hofer was born in Germany (1922) and died in Mexico (2009), and was all-in about photography. Her body of work offers a hinge between the objective and American-Colour traditions; and has been accurately titled as “the most famous unknown photographer in America”. Her lens was mainly filled with human and architectural subjects, and in her later years,she turned her camera towards still-life images. But despite…

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