Described by Hilton Kramer as "one of the most accomplished living masters of the medium," Evelyn Hofer is as staid and proficient a photographer as she is autonomous and perspicacious. Hofer's flight from her native Germany during the Nazi regime and subsequent tutelage under two Swiss photographers occasioned the start of her quietly seminal career. A superb portrait photographer and artistic innovator, Hofer prefigured the arrival of color photography to the sanctum of fine art. Her photographs have been published in several books, and are included in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Houston Museum of Fine Art, and David Rockefeller, Jr.