In this Dark Wood Elisabeth Tonnard Artist Book Photography

Elisabeth Tonnard

In this Dark Wood

This book is a modern gothic. It pairs images of people walking alone in nighttime city streets with 90 different English translations I collected of the first lines of Dante’s Inferno. The images, showing a crowd of solitary figures, are selected from the same archive as used for Two of Us (the extraordinary Joseph Selle collection at the Visual Studies Workshop which contains over a million negatives from a company of street photographers working in San Francisco from the 40’s to the 70’s).

The book is set up in a repetitious way, to stress a sense of similarity, endlessness and interchangeability. The images are re-expressions of each other, and so are the texts.

“It’s so rare that a book has a conceptual structure like this with the result being so genuinely affecting.” Charles Gute

Rochester, New York 2008. B&W, perfect bound paperback. 196 pages. See for the slideshow & a review by 5B4 ...

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Women in Paris 1954 Nico Jesse Andre Maurois Leica fotografie No 1 - 1955 Photography

by Camera Obscura ...

There are many books about Paris - the city of cities. But each of them presents only a single facet of this delightfully varied apparition. Paris is the confluence of Western Civilisations. Here they are mirroed in all their splendour. This book scores a bull, because Paris is, above all, a feminine city. Artists and authors flock there to wodner. Many, having wondered, inspire.

The text by André Maurois, is tuned to the delicacy of the theme; and the Leica pictures of a Dutch photographer match the text. Together they contrive to convey to our senses a picture of Paris, valid and authentic as few before. Gravure gives the reproductions warmth and attraction. Thus was a masterpiece made in word and image, and the presentation is a lovely and tasteful as the subject it honours.

the Oldest Sex Cinema Red Light District Amsterdam Jan-Dirk van der Burg Photography

Foam_3h: Jan-Dirk van der Burg - Sex Cinema Venus
10 november 2009 t/m 16 december 2009

In Foam_3h Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam exhibits Sex Cinema Venus by Jan-Dirk van der Burg. Sex Cinema Venus is the oldest sex cinema in the Red Light District of Amsterdam, which will soon disappear as a result of the city council’s regeneration plans. Using a slide show and several single photographs Van der Burg portrays the stories that take place behind the doors of this particular cinema.

One can continuously hear the characteristic sound of the Super 8 projectors on the Oudekerksplein in the Red Light District of Amsterdam. Every quarter of an hour Ton Grootes, the owner of Sex Cinema Venus, single-handedly changes the Super 8 rushes containing porn films from the Seventies. Soon the appearance of the Red Light District will change dramatically. The expectation is that the city council of Amsterdam will issue a compulsory purchase note to the sex cinema and will stimulate high-end commercial developments in its place. For the time being a new programme of porn films is shown each week for the few loyal customers.

Dutch photographer Jan-Dirk van der Burg is fascinated by day-to-day life. His work shows people engaged in exceptional hobbies and activities. For one of his earlier series Office Culture (2004) he photographed offices where people work who stay away from modern innovations as much as possible. In Toys for Boys (2009) he shows male adults playing with miniature vehicles. His work contains nostalgia as well as a subtle irony towards the subjects that he portrays.

Jan-Dirk van der Burg (b. 1978, Voorburg) graduated in 2003 at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in The Hague. Since then he has been working as a photographer and has exhibited at Breda Photo (2003), Epson Fotofestival Naarden (2005) andDescubrimientos Photo Espana (2007, Madrid). He also works free-lance for publications such as Het Parool, Adformatie,and Quote. His work has been published in Volkskrant Magazine,Vrij Nederland, NRC Next and Nieuwe Revu.

Forever Young in the Netherlands Janine Schrijver Documentary Photography

Schrijver, Janine

Janine Schrijver

Forever young : 55+ in Nederland / Janine Schrijver ; inl. Warna Oosterbaan ; [interviews (fragmenten) Danielle Pinedo]. - 1e dr. - Amsterdam : De Verbeelding, 2003. - 52 p. : foto's. ; 22×22 cm Aan de kop van de titelpagina: Document Nederland. - Uitg. naar aanleiding van de gelijknamige tentoonstelling in het FOAM (Fotomuseum Amsterdam). ISBN 90-74159-59-1. Lees verder ...

Fotobücher Made in Germany Ica Vilander a Re-Discovery Photography

Ica Vilander - A Re-discovery

At the end of the 1960’s, everyone who was interested in photography knew her - ICA VILANDER. However, today the individual photographer, always happy to try out new things, fell into oblivion. In reference books of German Photography from 1945 onwards you look her up unsuccessfully. Without good reason! It was Ica Vilander who portrayed the famous artists of her time - Hildegard Knef, Helene Weigel, Gregory Corso, Maurice Béjart, Sidney Poitier. However, she attracted a lot of attention internationally with her nude portraits.

ICA VILANDER, born in 1921 in Brux, Czechoslovakia, training as photographer; since 1944 she lived in Berlin, where she studied graphics and experimental photography at the university of fine arts with Heinz Hajek-Halke; since 1959 first, also international, publications. In twen, there are journalistically inspired studies about the cabaret artist Wolfgang Neuss (8/1962) and about Ica Vilander the photo essay "My Grandma Photographs Nude" (4/1967). The occasion of the essay: Vilander, at that time 40 years old, lived closely together with her son's hippie family and, therefore, with her lifestyle she was the model of a fun-loving and independent woman for a whole generation of women.


She inspired Werner Klett to the movie "Die Augen der Ica Vilander" (The Eyes of Ica Vilander) and participated in the film "Übungen mit Darsteller" (Training With Actors) by Werner Schröter. Some of her photographic works are to be seen as overlays in the movie "Das Brot der frühen Jahre" (The Bread of the Early Years) adapted from Heinrich Böll. For the publishing houses Rowohlt and Heyne, she designed books. From 1980, she has almost completely retired from public life.

Her originals are rare, as a lot was destroyed and does now only exist as a copy in twen or in her books "akt apart", "La femme vue par une femme" (1967), "akt abstrakt" (1968), "akt adonis" (1969), and "vive le sexe" (1970).

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40 definitive publications in Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s Photography

Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s & 70s by Jeansnow ...

Tokyo-based publisher Goliga Books is about to release Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s & 70s — here’s a teaser...

During the 1960s and 70s in Japan, the photobook—through a combination of excellence in design, printing, and materials—overtook prints as a popular mode of artistic dissemination. Now, any discussion of Japanese photography must include these works. Today, the most famous works—such as Nobuyoshi Araki’s Sentimental Journey and Eikoh Hosoe’s Man and Woman—continue to inspire artists internationally.

Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70spresents 40 definitive publications from the era, piecing together an otherwise invisible history that has played out in tandem with photography as a medium. Included are some of the most influential works, along with forgotten gems, placed within a larger historical and sociological context. Each book, beautifully reproduced through numerous spreads, is accompanied by an in-depth explanatory text and sidebars highlighting important editors, designers, themes, and periodicals. Lavishly produced, this unique publication is an ode to the distinct character and influence of the Japanese photobook.

Select titles include: Nobuyoshi Araki, Ken Domon, Masahisa Fukase, Hiroshi Hamaya, Eikoh Hosoe, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Miyako Ishiuchi, Kikuji Kawada, Keizo Kitajima, Kineo Kuwabara, Yoichi Midorikawa, Daido Moriyama, Takuma Nakahira, Ikko Narahara, Yasuzo Nojima, Kishin Shinoyama, Shomei Tomatsu, Hiromi Tsuchida. See for NOMINATED BEST PHOTOBOOK 2007/08 Kiyoshi Suzuki soul and soul 1969-1999 Photography ...

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Occupation Soldier Fighters and Peacemakers in Afghanistan Ad van Denderen Documentary Photography

Occupation: Soldier
Since the end of the Cold War in 1990 and the expected conclusion of the Uruzgan mission in 2010, almost 90,000 Dutch soldiers have been involved in peacekeeping operations.

What do we remember of them, what remains in our collective visual memory? Precious little. Peacekeeping does not produce spectacular images. Except when it goes wrong. The fall of Srebrenica is an open wound in Dutch (military) history.

Even so, every day young men and women do their often dangerous duty. Drawn by the adventure, out of a need for camaraderie and sometimes also out of idealism and a sense of responsibility. In total, around 40 of them have lost their lives, more than half in Afghanistan.

As part of their annual photo commission, Document Nederland, the Rijksmuseum and NRC Handelsblad newspaper asked photographer Ad van Denderen to give this history a face. Van Denderen followed the recruits during their training in The Netherlands and on their missions in Chad and Uruzgan: hard working, operating with caution; a frequently unglamorous existence. He also turned his lens towards family members. He captured the Christmas and New Year’s greetings being recorded in a television studio and visited the homes of families whose sons will never return – the target of insurgents as a result of their occupation.

‘Wars are begun because the lust for war exists,’ writes Arnon Grunberg. His polemic examination of the notion of civilisation forms the introduction to Occupation: Soldier. Grunberg visited ISAF, NATO’s peacekeeping and reconstruction force in Afghanistan, in 2006 and 2007.

Ad van Denderen
Ad van Denderen (1943, The Netherlands) has worked as a photographer for Vrij Nederland, Stern, NRC Handelsblad, GEO and The Independent magazine, among others.

He has received a number of prestigious prizes for his work, including the Visa d’Or at the international photo festival Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan in 2001 and The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts’ (Fonds BKVB) oeuvre prize in 2007/2008.

Go No Go, his book on migration in Europe, based on 13 years of work, was published by Actes Sud, Mets & Schilt, Lunwerg Editores, Edition Braus and Paradox in 2003. For the 2008 SteidlMack/Paradox publication So Blue So Blue, Van Denderen photographed the 17 countries around the Mediterranean Sea. Earlier publications include Peace in The Holy Land, a book about Palestine (1997) and Welkom in Suid-Afrika, about apartheid (1991).

His work has been widely exhibited in (international) group and solo exhibitions. Go No Go was shown at FOAM and Imagine IC (Amsterdam), the Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna, Austria), La Criée (Rennes, France) and other venues. The project was developed by filmmaker Bors Gerrets into an audiovisual piece on DVD for Paradox. The film premiered at a special migration meeting of the European Parliament in 2004. So Blue So Blue opened in the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam (NL) in 2008 before going on to the Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH) in the spring of 2009.

In 2008, Van Denderen was invited by the Rijksmuseum and NRC Handelsblad to work on Document Nederland, an annual commission dealing with contemporary Dutch history, which that year focused on the Dutch armed forces. This resulted in the exhibition Fighters and Peacemakers in the Fotomuseum Den Haag in 2009/2010 and the book Occupation Soldier (NRC Books/Paradox, 2009).

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