How Hofer used the photobook form to chronicle American and European cities in an era of postwar transformationEvelyn Hofer was a highly innovative photographer whose prolific career spanned five decades. Despite her extraordinary output she was underrecognized during her lifetime and was notably referred to by New York Times art critic Hilton Kramer as ampampquotthe most famous unknown photographer in America.ampampquot She made her greatest impact through a series of photobooks published throughout the 1960s devoted to European and American cities including Florence London New York Washington and Dublin and a book focused on the country of Spain.Comprising more than 100 photographs in both black and white and color Eyes on the City accompanies the artists first major museum exhibition in the United States in over 50 years and is organized around her photobooks. The photographs feature landscapes and architectural views combined with portraiture conveying the unique character and personality of these urban capitals during a period of intense structural social and economic transformations after World War II.Evelyn Hofer 19222009 was born in Germany and moved to New York in 1946.