...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
Desiree Dolron: Exaltation - Images of Religion and Death.
ISBN 9080260827
Amsterdam, DDH Foundation, 2000. Stiff folded and pictorial wrappers (softcover), 27,5 x 24,3 cms., 120 pp. with over 40 plates in duotone, 2 colour illustrations, biography.
Desiree Dolron: Exaltation - Images of Religion and Death.
ISBN 9080260827
Amsterdam, DDH Foundation, 2000. Stiff folded and pictorial wrappers (softcover), 27,5 x 24,3 cms., 120 pp. with over 40 plates in duotone, 2 colour illustrations, biography.
AMSTERDAM.-Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam presents the latest project by photographer Cuny Janssen, entitled "My Grandma Was A Turtle". This refers to the Turtle clan of the matriarchal Delaware tribe of Native Americans in Oklahoma. In 2008, Janssen visited the village of Bartlesville in Oklahoma to photograph children of Native American ancestry and their surroundings. She was curious to see whether there was anything about their origins to be seen in today’s Native American children. Her photos of people and her landscape images are relaxed, timeless and remarkable for their subtle lyricism.
Cuny Janssen focuses her lens almost exclusively on children and unspoilt nature. Her landscape pictures are taken in the same environment in which her portrait subjects live. The children in the photos look straight into the camera without reservation. Their candour and the beauty of the surrounding country perfectly match the tranquillity and natural ease exuded by her photography. Trust and an ability to open up to direct experience are essential aspects of the way Janssen works.
Cuny Janssen’s photography fits in a long-established tradition in Dutch art and culture of focusing totally on everyday objects, in which appearance and insight merge together.
Cuny Janssen (1975) graduated in 2000 at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht. Two years later she won second prize in the Prix de Rome for photography. Most of her work is produced on her travels, including India (2000), Macedonia (2003), Iran (2004), South Africa (2005), Japan (2008, 2009, 2010) and lately to the United States.
This exhibition is accompanied by a volume entitled "My Grandma Was A Turtle", with texts by Nicky Michael and Sybren Kuiper (Snoeck Verlag).
Museum De Pont is presenting a selection of photos taken by Cuny Janssen while on the Japanese island of Amami in 2007. The show runs from 20 March to 23 May and is accompanied by a publication. Zie verder een interview ...
"My Grandma was a Turtle" is on show from 2 April to 2 May 2010 at Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. Lees verder ... & nog een recensie ...
AMSTERDAM.-Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam presents the latest project by photographer Cuny Janssen, entitled "My Grandma Was A Turtle". This refers to the Turtle clan of the matriarchal Delaware tribe of Native Americans in Oklahoma. In 2008, Janssen visited the village of Bartlesville in Oklahoma to photograph children of Native American ancestry and their surroundings. She was curious to see whether there was anything about their origins to be seen in today’s Native American children. Her photos of people and her landscape images are relaxed, timeless and remarkable for their subtle lyricism.
Cuny Janssen focuses her lens almost exclusively on children and unspoilt nature. Her landscape pictures are taken in the same environment in which her portrait subjects live. The children in the photos look straight into the camera without reservation. Their candour and the beauty of the surrounding country perfectly match the tranquillity and natural ease exuded by her photography. Trust and an ability to open up to direct experience are essential aspects of the way Janssen works.
Cuny Janssen’s photography fits in a long-established tradition in Dutch art and culture of focusing totally on everyday objects, in which appearance and insight merge together.
Cuny Janssen (1975) graduated in 2000 at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht. Two years later she won second prize in the Prix de Rome for photography. Most of her work is produced on her travels, including India (2000), Macedonia (2003), Iran (2004), South Africa (2005), Japan (2008, 2009, 2010) and lately to the United States.
This exhibition is accompanied by a volume entitled "My Grandma Was A Turtle", with texts by Nicky Michael and Sybren Kuiper (Snoeck Verlag).
Museum De Pont is presenting a selection of photos taken by Cuny Janssen while on the Japanese island of Amami in 2007. The show runs from 20 March to 23 May and is accompanied by a publication. Zie verder een interview ...
"My Grandma was a Turtle" is on show from 2 April to 2 May 2010 at Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. Lees verder ... & nog een recensie ...
Hanami is one of the most popular events of Spring. Crowds of people - families, groups of friends, and groups from companies sit under the fully open cherry blossoms, usually on plastic tarps, and have a picnic celebration. The picnic fare consists of a wide variety of foods, snack foods, and sake (rice wine) or other drinks. The activities often include dancing and karaoke in addition to the cherry blossom viewing. In very popular places such as Ueno park and Aoyama Cemetary in Tokyo the competition for prime picnic spots is intense. Company groups and family members claim spots by arriving very early in the morning and sitting all day long until the real celebrations begin in the evening. It is not unusual to see a young man in a business suit sitting under a cherry tree early in the morning reserving a space for his company. The new employees are traditionally given this job of sitting all day long to reserve space for the company celebration. In Japan, April is the beginning of the school year as well as the business financial year. Since the Heian Period (794-1185) flower-viewing parties were popular among the aristocracy. In the Azuchi Momoyama Period (1568-1600) the cherry blossom viewing spread out to the rest of the population. Lees verder ...
Hanami is one of the most popular events of Spring. Crowds of people - families, groups of friends, and groups from companies sit under the fully open cherry blossoms, usually on plastic tarps, and have a picnic celebration. The picnic fare consists of a wide variety of foods, snack foods, and sake (rice wine) or other drinks. The activities often include dancing and karaoke in addition to the cherry blossom viewing. In very popular places such as Ueno park and Aoyama Cemetary in Tokyo the competition for prime picnic spots is intense. Company groups and family members claim spots by arriving very early in the morning and sitting all day long until the real celebrations begin in the evening. It is not unusual to see a young man in a business suit sitting under a cherry tree early in the morning reserving a space for his company. The new employees are traditionally given this job of sitting all day long to reserve space for the company celebration. In Japan, April is the beginning of the school year as well as the business financial year. Since the Heian Period (794-1185) flower-viewing parties were popular among the aristocracy. In the Azuchi Momoyama Period (1568-1600) the cherry blossom viewing spread out to the rest of the population. Lees verder ...
Louw, Andre Van Der & Zweers, Marijke (Eds.). Twen / Taboe # 02. Amsterdam: Twen, 1960. First Printing. 26.4 x 33.6 Cm.. Magazine. Good. The first "underground" magazine in The Netherlands modelled after the German Twen magazine. It had to change the name from Twen (First issue only) to Taboe as a result of a conflict with the Springer Press that had taken over Twen. Only 4 issued. The magazine is a who is who of now famous Dutch photographers and writers. Cover picture by Eddy Postuma de Boer. Illustrations by Asto, Gub, Frank Lodeizen, Fritz Muller, Oey Tjong Sit, Tomi Ungerer, K. Smit and Wil van der Zwaan. Pictures by e.g. Ed van der Elsken, Eddy de Jongh, Joan van der Keuken, Eddy Postuma de Boer and Kees Pot. Writers: Hans Andreus, Remco Campert, Ed van der Elsken, Willem Frederik Hermans (Pre-publication? from Nooit meer slapen (Never sleep again)), Frits Muller (LSD - with pictures of Frits Muler and Simon Vinkenoog taking a trip), Tom Pauka, Renate Rubinstein, Arne Zuidhoek, Ina Tammes, Friso Endt (Gerry Mulligan) and Simon Vinkenoog (see above). 102 pp., lavishly illustrated in black and white. Language: Dutch.
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