{"id":358,"date":"2007-10-02T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/02\/portuguese-libraries-photographed-by-candida-hofer\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T05:01:44","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T13:01:44","slug":"portuguese-libraries-photographed-by-candida-hofer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/reading\/literature\/portuguese-libraries-photographed-by-candida-hofer\/","title":{"rendered":"Portuguese libraries, photographed by Candida H\u00f6fer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-07\/coimbra.jpg\" title=\"library in coimbra, purtugal\" alt=\"library in coimbra, purtugal\" height=\"344\" width=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mocp.org\/collections\/permanent\/hfer_candida.php\" title=\"candida hofer, photography\" target=\"_blank\">Candida H\u00f6fer<\/a>&#8216;s photographs of Portuguese libraries, now on display at the <span class=\"darkgreybold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artnet.com\/Galleries\/Home.asp?G=&amp;gid=139120&amp;which=&amp;rta=http:\/\/www.artnet.com\" title=\"sonnabend gallery\" target=\"_blank\">Sonnabend Gallery<\/a>, <\/span>536 West 22nd Street<span class=\"darkgreybold\"> in NYC, presents libraries as places of opulence. In these settings the books, clearly <\/span><span class=\"darkgreybold\">precious objects,<\/span><span class=\"darkgreybold\"> convey an almost religious authority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"darkgreybold\">Shown is <\/span><em>Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra VI 2006.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofthebook.org\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/candida_hoefer_the_library_as.html\" title=\"if:book\" target=\"_blank\">If:Book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candida H\u00f6fer&#8216;s photographs of Portuguese libraries, now on display at the Sonnabend Gallery, 536 West 22nd Street in NYC, presents libraries as places of opulence. In these settings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[35,13,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}