...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
donderdag 31 maart 2011
Sem Presser Berlin Germany since 1945 Through the Eye of Dutch Photographers Photography
Sem Presser Berlin ...
The photojournalist Sem Presser (1917-1986) literally took the whole world as the field for his endeavours. He produced reports from the South Pole, former Dutch New Guinea, Korea, the United States, Suriname, Africa and a host of other places. But he also worked closer to home, in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France. With subtle humour and an eye for sometimes absurd details, he recorded his fellow man. Street scenes become almost surreal tableaux vivants.
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