...a photoBook is an autonomous art form, comparable with a piece of sculpture, a play or a film. The photographs lose their own photographic character as things 'in themselves' and become parts, translated into printing ink, of a dramatic event called a book... - Dutch photography critic Ralph Prins
vrijdag 1 maart 2019
Carnaval in the Low Countries a Photonovel by Wubbo de Jong Photography
Wubbo de Jong
For thirty years Wubbo de Jong was the number-one documentary photographer for daily newspaper Het Parool. In 1990 he received the prestigious Silver Camera Award for his picture “The Kiss”, a Romanian soldier saying good-bye to his lover. A year later he was chosen photojournalist of the year. De Jong died in July 2002, age 56, just before publication of his photo book “Amsterdam and the Rest of the World”.
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