1956 Lionel Hampton Ed van der Elsken Photography

1956 Lionel Hampton Ed van der Elsken Photography

the finishing touch Carel Blazer Cover Design Company Photography

The finishing touch: 100 jaar Twentsche Stoombleekerij NV door Max Dendermonde en Carel Blazer. [Text Max Dendermonde (firm's history). Photography Carel Blazer. Layout Gerard Wernars].

Goor / 1957 / 96 p. / hb. / 27x20cm / 94 b&w photographs, 2 color / bedrijfsreportage en foto's van landschap en folklore). - Ill. 7 b&w photographs / pentekeningen van tjaps). / NN / Firmenschrift, Festschrift / Wirtschaft, Firmengeschichte - Photographie - Anthologie - Auftragsphotographie, commissioned photography - Nederland, Niederlande - 20. Jahrh. / Printed by Drukkerij Meijer NV, Wormerveer (boekdruk). - Opdrachtgever: NV Twentsche Stoomblekerij (100-jarig bestaan). - Kenmerken van filmisch scenario. In de tekstkolommen, gezet uit de Baskerville, wordt direct gereageerd op de fotografie.

Frans Molenaar Haute Couture Dutch Fashion Design Photography

MOLENAAR, FRANS - MUAL, MAKIRI. - Frans Molenaar.
Terra/Lannoo, 2005. Cloth-covered boards with pictorial dustjacket (hardcover), 29,5 x 29,5 cms., 204 pp. profusely illustrated. Photography by Lood van Bennekom, Julian Beusker, Maurice Boyer, Hans Buter, Jan Francis, Martijn van Gelder, George van Herwaarde, Bianca Holzhaus, Paul Huf, Chris Hutter, Jan Keja, Inez van Lamsweerde, Bert Meijer, Sean MacAndrew, Frits Schroeder, Marcel van de Vlugt

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In the street New York Helen Levitt Photography

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Helen Levitt - In the Street
24 October 2008 to 18 January 2009

This autumn, Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam presents a retrospective of work by the famous American street photographer Helen Levitt (b. 1913, New York). Inspired by her mentors and friends Walker Evans and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Levitt recorded life on the streets of 1940s New York in black-and-white photos. Her work set the tone for a new documentary style in American photography. Her photos are visual poems in which form, colour and movement all play a key part. Among the exhibits in In the Street is a series of contact sheets which show how Levitt moved about when photographing on the streets, recording the choreography of the people around her. Helen Levitt was also a pioneer of colour photography. In addition to her black-and-white photos, the exhibition also features a selection of her famous dye-transfers (colour photos).

Helen Levitt grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Having left school early, she spent four years working as a commercial photographer, teaching herself the skills. Social unrest in the 1930s led the government to help set up projects to deal with problems caused by the Depression. One of these was the Farm Security Administration, which included a highly influential photography programme. But after she saw the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Levitt was less interested in rural America, and determined instead to record life in New York. Not as a documentary but as observation. Inspired by Cartier-Bresson, in 1936 she bought a Leica and took to the city streets, beginning by photographing children. She concentrated mainly on the poorer neighbourhoods in New York, since street life was more visually interesting here. Her pictures show scenes from everyday life: children playing, adults talking, passers-by. Despite their everyday subject matter, the photos are full of drama, humour and grace.

In 1959 and 1960 Levitt received two grants from the Guggenheim Foundation to record the city’s streets, this time in colour. In these photos, colour becomes an eloquent, expressive aspect of her subject. This powerful visual element draws the viewer to other parts of the picture. Moreover, the photos from this later period show different neighbourhoods, where Levitt searched for a new impulse. Her focus in these works is on older people, rather than children. The compositions are more tranquil, which partly reflects her own age (by the late 1970s she had turned 65), although rhythm and movement are still a vital ingredient in her work. Almost all her early colour work was stolen in 1970 when a burglar broke into her apartment, after which Levitt returned to the streets to produce yet more colour photos.

In 1943, Edward Steichen produced the first solo exhibition of work by Helen Levitt at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In the 1940s Levitt also made two films, The Quiet One and In the Street. Levitt has published several books, including A Way of Seeing (1965), In the Street (1987), Crosstown (2001) and Slideshow (2005).

This year Levitt received the SPECTRUM prize, the Internationaler Preis für Fotografie der Stiftung Niedersachsen, which was accompanied by a new book: Fotografien 1937-1991. Levitt (95) has been photographing for almost 70 years and currently lives in relative seclusion in New York. Lees verder ...

23 Distinctively Dutch photographs Christie’s London Photography

Distinctively Dutch
For the first time ever in any Photographs auction, Christie’s London presents 23 Distinctively Dutch photographs from the Netherlands. An essay by Hripsimé Visser, Curator of Photography at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, accompanies this section. The exceptional works offered are no longer available on the primary market and include sold-out works by key artists such as Desiree Dolron, with Xteriors VII , 2004 (estimate: £25,000-35,000); Céline van Balen’s Muazez, 1998 (estimate: £10,000-15,000); Marnix Goosens’ celebrated Cloud from ‘Regarding Nature’ , 2000 (estimate: £10,000-15,000) illustrated left; Elspeth Diederix, with Still life (milk), 2002 (estimate: £8,000-12,000) and Edwin Zwakman’s significant work Fly-over II, 1996 (estimate: £10,000-15,000).

Traditions, genres and concepts frequently become entwined in contemporary photography; this is exemplified in works from the Netherlands. The fusion of fashion and documentary disciplines is apparent in Viviane Sassen’s highly stylised Kathleen, 2006 (estimate: £5,000-7,000). Such crossovers between genres have underpinned new forms of expression. This is the case with the expressive pop photography of Anton Corbijn, such as Patti Smith, 1999 (estimate: £10,000-15,000).

The Dutch photographers featured have created highly personal works. They present staged worlds which become new realities; choose unexpected view points; remove contexts of understanding; construct remembered realities from maquettes and alter or blur focus. The resulting works are colourful, large and autonomous, such as Diederix’s Still life (milk) detailed above and illustrated right, which points to the long tradition of Dutch still life.Different examples include striking, digitally manipulated images such as The Ice Cream Parlour from 'Rain', 2004 (estimate: £15,000-20,000) illustrated page one right and the portfolio Royal Blood, 2000 (estimate: £10,000-15,000), both by Erwin Olaf, as well as World #16, 2006, by Ruud van Empel (estimate: £10,000-15,000).

Distinctively Dutch includes four powerful portraits of Muslim girls which are thought provoking and aesthetically beautiful. Céline van Balen’s Muazez, 1998, (estimate: £10,000-15,000) illustrated left, is part of an important series, Muslim Girls,which depicts girls in temporary accommodation in Amsterdam. Zaineb from ‘Sisters’ , 2006, by Martine Stig (estimate: £5,000-7,000) is part of her portrait series of young women at the University of Kuwait who deliberately chose to wear veils. The project revealed the fine balance between depictions of self and personal modesty. Hondius’s Amman from ‘Harmless’, 2003, (estimate: £5,000-7,000), taken with a hidden camera, is a candid image providing a rare glimpse into a normally closed world. Another unique, almost painterly, approach is Untitled #10 from ‘Frontstage’, 2006, by Anoek Steketee (estimate: £6,000-8,000), whose works illuminate the everyday life of Iranians and investigate the accuracy of portrayals by western media. From the main body of the sale a further work in this genre includes I am its Secret by Iranian photographer Shirin Neshat (estimate: £3,000-5,000). Also of relevance, is The Vegetable Shop, Mogador, Morocco, 1962, by Paul Strand (estimate: £15,000-20,000).

Photographs of the Nationaal Archief and Spaarnestad Photo on Flickr the Commons! Photography

Arrival of the "Castel Felice" with repatriates from Indonesia on Lloydkade in Rotterdam. Netherlands, Rotterdam, May 20th, 1958.

About the Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands

The Nationaal Archief in The Hague preserves almost one thousand years of history, in the form of over 110 kilometres of archives, almost 300,000 maps and drawings and more than 2 million photos. The archives were created by the national government, but archives from private institutions and individuals are also preserved at the Nationaal Archief as interesting supplements to the government archives.

Bij het Nationaal Archief in Den Haag ligt bijna duizend jaar geschiedenis opgeslagen in 110 kilometer archieven, bijna 300.000 kaarten en tekeningen en ruim 2 miljoen foto’s. De archieven zijn afkomstig van de rijksoverheid. Daarnaast vormen archieven van particuliere instellingen en personen een interessante aanvulling op de overheidsarchieven.

About the Nationaal Archief historical photo collections

Repatriates. Tired and melancholic repatriate from Indonesia who came to the Netherlands on the "M.S. Tegelberg".Holland, august 28th 1946

The Nationaal Archief photo collection consists of more than 2 million photos that cover a period of more than a hundred years of national and international history. More than 500,000 digitalised photographs can already be viewed in low resolution on our at online image bank . Over the course of the next few years, the majority of the Nationaal Archief’s photo collection will be digitalised in high resolution as part of the Images for the Future project. The Nationaal Archief manages important documentary photograph collections. These collections contain genres and subjects such as press photography, social and historic documentary photography, reports on the former Dutch colonies, football and the Royal Family.

De fotocollectie van het Nationaal Archief bestaat uit meer dan 2 miljoen foto’s die een periode van honderd jaar nationale en internationale geschiedenis bestrijken. Meer dan 500.000 gedigitaliseerde foto’s zijn al in lage resolutie te bekijken op de online beeldbank. Binnen het digitaliseringsproject Beelden voor de Toekomst zal het belangrijkste deel van de fotocollectie van het Nationaal Archief in de komende jaren beschreven en in hoge resolutie gedigitaliseerd worden. Het Nationaal Archief beheert belangrijke documentaire fotocollecties. Deze collecties bevatten genres en onderwerpen als persfotografie, sociale en historische documentaire fotografie, reportages over de voormalige Nederlandse koloniën, voetbal en de Koninklijke familie.

About the historical photo collections of Spaarnestad Photo

The Nationaal Archief recently began a close co-operation with Spaarnestad Photo that will eventually lead to the Nationaal Archief managing the collections of both institutions. Spaarnestad Photo manages a unique and rich archive containing more than 12 million press and documentary photographs taken during the 19th and 20th centuries from around the world. The core of the collection is the photograph archive of De Spaarnestad, a magazine publisher founded in Haarlem in 1906, which later became VNU.

Sinds kort werkt het Nationaal Archief nauw samen met Spaarnestad Photo, wat ertoe zal leiden dat het Nationaal Archief in de toekomst de collecties van beide instellingen gaat beheren. Spaarnestad Photo beheert een uniek en rijk archief met 12 miljoen pers- en documentaire foto’s uit de 19e en 20ste eeuw van over de hele wereld. De kern van de collectie is het fotoarchief van de Haarlemse tijdschriftenuitgeverij De Spaarnestad (het latere VNU).

Co-operation Nationaal Archief and Spaarnestad Photo

Reception center for Dutch colonials in Amersfoort. Two children beside a stove. The Netherlands, Amersfoort, date unknown.

There is a great deal of common ground between the photograph collections of the Nationaal Archief and Spaarnestad Photo. The two parties’ decision to begin co-operating creates a high-quality selection of Dutch documentary and press photography with more than 14 million images. The collection will allow students, publishers, journalists, scientists and other interesting parties to form their own vision of the history of the 20th century.

Er zijn veel raakvlakken tussen de fotocollecties van het Nationaal Archief en Spaarnestad Photo. Door het besluit van het Nationaal Archief en Spaarnestad Photo om een samenwerking aan te gaan, ontstaat een topselectie van Nederlandse documentaire/persfotografie met ruim 14 miljoen beelden. Een collectie waaruit scholieren, studenten, uitgevers, journalisten, wetenschappers en andere belangstellenden hun eigen beeld van de geschiedenis van de 20ste eeuw kunnen vormen.

Photographs of the Nationaal Archief and Spaarnestad Photo on Flickr the Commons!

By posting part of our photography collections on Flickr the Commons, the Nationaal Archief and Spaarnestad Photo have created an opportunity to share their historic photo collections with a broader public. You can help us enrich our knowledge of the photo collections by adding tags and comments. If you recognise people or locations in the photos, or have an interesting story to tell about one of the photos, then post a comment (if you are registered with Flickr) or send us a e-mail at flickrthecommons@nationaalarchief.nl! At the moment, 200 photographs from the Nationaal Archief’s collection (most of them from the Labour Inspectorate collection) and 200 from the Spaarnestad Photo collection are available for viewing on Flickr the Commons. We will be adding new material regularly, and hope that you will continue to return to the site to see what’s new.

Door een deel van onze fotocollecties op Flickr the Commons te plaatsen, zien het Nationaal Archief en Spaarnestad Photo een kans hun historische fotocollecties met een breder publiek te kunnen delen. U kunt ons helpen onze kennis van de fotocollecties te verrijken door tags en commentaren toe te voegen. Herkent u mensen of locaties of heeft u een leuk verhaal te vertellen bij één van de foto’s, laat dan een reactie achter (als u ingelogd bent bij Flickr) of stuur ons een mailtje (flickrthecommons@nationaalarchief.nl)! Op dit moment kunt u op Flickr the Commons 200 foto’s uit de collectie van het Nationaal Archief (waarvan het grootste deel uit de collectie van de Arbeidsinspectie) bekijken en 200 uit de collectie van Spaarnestad Photo; we zullen echter regelmatig nieuw materiaal plaatsen en hopen dan ook dat u vaak zult terugkeren op deze site.

For more information on the Nationaal Archief, see: www.nationaalarchief.nl/

For more information on Spaarnestad Photo, see: www.spaarnestadphoto.nl/

For more information about our digitisation project Images for the Future, see: Beelden voor de Toekomst Images for the Future

Repatriates. Older colonial woman is feeding a child, who is sitting on het lap, at the table.Holland, Amsterdam Slotermeer, 1956

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