Nobody photographs the splendid and intimate cathedrals of knowledge as beautifully as Candida Höfer: the Escorial in Spain, the Whitney Museum and the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, Villa Medici in Rome, the Hamburg University Library. With a witty essay on libraries by Umberto Eco.
Schirmer/Mosel. With an essay by Umberto Eco. 272 pages, 137 colour plates. Size: 24,5 x 30 cm, hardcover.

English edition available, ISBN 978-3-8296-0186-3, EUR 78.00.