New York & Amsterdam by Numbers Hans Eijkelboom Photography

'New York By Numbers' is the result of a task I set myself. Over a three week period, I walked around the city taking pictures of people with numbers on their clothing. This soon became a game, but the results are about finding order, uncovering a strict pattern in our apparently chaotic everyday life. Hans Eijkelboom, 30 April-20 May 2010



Amsterdam by Numbers is the result of a task I set myself. Over a five week period, I walked around the city taking pictures of people with numbers on their clothing. This soon became a game, but the results are about finding order, uncovering a strict pattern in our apparently chaotic everyday life. Hans Eijkelboom. Lees verder de recensie van Hans Aarsman ...

Hans Eijkelboom (Born 1949, Arnhem, Holland) began his artistic career in 1971 with an installation that was part of a group show that included Joseph Beuys, Ed Ruscha, and Douglas Huebler. Since then, he has produced over twenty-five books, gaining renown in Europe for self-publishing many of them, and his work has been exhibited internationally, including solo shows at the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam; Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, the Netherlands; Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands; Provincial Museum of Photography, Antwerp, Belgium; and Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany. Eijkelboom is based in Amsterdam.