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Baltimore Museum of Art exhibits contemporary images by acclaimed German photographer Candida Höfer

BALTIMORE, MD.- In September 2010, internationally acclaimed contemporary German photographer Candida Höfer focused her camera on two of Baltimore’s most venerable cultural institutions: The Johns Hopkins University’s George Peabody Library and the Walters Art Museum. A selection of the resulting images will make their Baltimore debut in Candida Höfer: Interior Worlds. On view at the BMA from November 16, 2011 through February 26, 2012, the exhibition features 13 breathtaking images of European and American interiors that demonstrate how the artist goes beyond documenting architecture to capture moments of contemplative beauty. Höfer’s images of the Peabody Library and Walters Art Museum contrast the exciting cast iron decoration in the library’s late 19th-century reading room with the refined Italian Renaissance-inspired space of the early 20th-century museum interior. These enormous