Changes Cor Jaring the Chronicler of the Roaring Sixties Provo Amsterdam Photojournalism Photography

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JARING, COR. - Dit hap-hap-happens in Amsterdam

Amsterdam, De Arbeiderspers, 1966. 8vo. Unpaged. Text by Henk J.Meijer, illustrated throughout with reproductions of Jaring's photographs of the sixties happenings in Amsterdam. Original wrappers. First edition.

JARING, COR - FALLAUX, EMILE - Amsterdam.

Huizen, Tritonpers, 1969. Illustrated glazed paper-covered boards , 28,5 x 21,9 cms., 128 pp. text in Dutch, English, German and French with 200 b/w photographic illustrations on Amsterdam in the Sixties. "Amsterdam. A portrait of the Hippie City. Naked, naughty, natural...and unnatural. The 'man in the street' and the 'woman on the streets'. Wayout people in outlandish clothes, people with painted bodies. Shocking, sexy. Amsterdam from the inside out!

JARING,COR. - De Amsterdamse haven / The port of Amsterdam.

Amersfoort, 2001. 127 pp. Col. & b./w. ills. Boards.*Text in Dutch & English

Changes Cor Jaring the Chronicler of the Roaring Sixties Provo Amsterdam Photojournalism Photography

Lees verder ...

JARING, COR. - Dit hap-hap-happens in Amsterdam

Amsterdam, De Arbeiderspers, 1966. 8vo. Unpaged. Text by Henk J.Meijer, illustrated throughout with reproductions of Jaring's photographs of the sixties happenings in Amsterdam. Original wrappers. First edition.

JARING, COR - FALLAUX, EMILE - Amsterdam.

Huizen, Tritonpers, 1969. Illustrated glazed paper-covered boards , 28,5 x 21,9 cms., 128 pp. text in Dutch, English, German and French with 200 b/w photographic illustrations on Amsterdam in the Sixties. "Amsterdam. A portrait of the Hippie City. Naked, naughty, natural...and unnatural. The 'man in the street' and the 'woman on the streets'. Wayout people in outlandish clothes, people with painted bodies. Shocking, sexy. Amsterdam from the inside out!

JARING,COR. - De Amsterdamse haven / The port of Amsterdam.

Amersfoort, 2001. 127 pp. Col. & b./w. ills. Boards.*Text in Dutch & English

Through the eyes of the Dutch Istanbul Diana Blok Photography

Through the eyes of the Dutch Istanbul is seen as a city far behind Amsterdam. And yet, surprisingly in Istanbul and Ankara the Turkish community accepts homosexuals much more than the Turkish community in Amsterdam.

During her visit to Istanbul in 2008 Diana Blok discovered an active gay nightlife more visible and open than expected. She imagined the lesbian world to be totally hidden but found it to be most open in terms of meeting and speaking, even though there is no clear Lesbian community. Gay bars for men are more common, but their willingness to share their lives was more hidden. It is better to be a tough woman in Turkey, they said, than a fragile man.

Diana Blok got in touch with two organizations (Pink House and KAOS GL), both active with issues of sexual orientation and gender identity for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals concerning human rights. With their help she found subjects who could relate to her photographic work and were willing to pose for the camera and speak openly about their lives. They shared their courageous, heartfelt stories and the difficulties they face to be free human beings within the traditional society in which they live. Many gay men, lesbians or transsexuals lead a double life.
It is a complex subject within a complex country in the process of change. Some socio-cultural aspects are opening, others disappearing and yet others hiding. Physical and psychological harassment towards these individuals is still common.

Although it is not illegal to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans in Turkey, there are still discrimination practices and persecutions against them.

“Having been brought up in Latin America as a Catholic I wondered how the taboos of my upbringing differed from that of the Turkish society today. It is obvious that there is still a great problem with visibility, but it has become clear that there is also change and dreams which very slowly take on a new form.” Diana Blok

This project is dedicated to all individuals who struggle for a voice to express their love.

Diana Blok (1952, Montevideo Uruguay) grew up in Colombia, Mexico and Guatemala. Since 1974 she lives and works in Amsterdam. She is self-taught. Her work is exhibited, published and purchased worldwide. Since 1985, she often participated in group exhibitions in the Melkweg Galerie, where in 2005 her last solo exhibition "Paradise In Disguise" was shown. Issues around sexual identity are always a returning theme in the work of Diana Blok. Lees verder ...

the Dutch Landscape Jannes Linders Architecture Photography

The Dutch Landscape

Population growth, economic activity and lack of space all helped to shape the Dutch landscape. Photographers André-Pierre Lamoth and Jannes Linders were commissioned to capture these aspects under the title ‘The Dutch Landscape’. Photographs, therefore, not of river landscapes, beaches, dunes, horizons and cloudy skies, but of those other typically Dutch landscapes: efficiently layed out, every corner made use of for activities demanding more and more space such as the building of roads, offices and houses, and recreation.

Lamoth focused on three types of landscape: places that had recently undergone some change, places that were in the process of being changed, and places where substantial developments were due to take place in the near future. Linders pictured natural landscapes showing signs of minor human interventions.

Jannes Linders

Dordrecht, 1955

Studied from 1976 until 1981 at the Art Academy St. Joost in Breda. From 1982 onwards he has worked as a freelance photographer in Rotterdam. He also has a large number of publications to his name and he makes posters for, amongst others, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Central Museum Utrecht.

He took part in various group exhibitions, one of them in Museum Boymans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. His work is also included in the collections of the Amsterdam City Archives and the Nederlandse Kunststichting (Dutch Art Foundation). See for more architecture photography ... & see for a a review New York/Nature as Artifice Photography by Journal/Brian Rose ...

the Dutch Landscape Jannes Linders Architecture Photography

The Dutch Landscape

Population growth, economic activity and lack of space all helped to shape the Dutch landscape. Photographers André-Pierre Lamoth and Jannes Linders were commissioned to capture these aspects under the title ‘The Dutch Landscape’. Photographs, therefore, not of river landscapes, beaches, dunes, horizons and cloudy skies, but of those other typically Dutch landscapes: efficiently layed out, every corner made use of for activities demanding more and more space such as the building of roads, offices and houses, and recreation.

Lamoth focused on three types of landscape: places that had recently undergone some change, places that were in the process of being changed, and places where substantial developments were due to take place in the near future. Linders pictured natural landscapes showing signs of minor human interventions.

Jannes Linders

Dordrecht, 1955

Studied from 1976 until 1981 at the Art Academy St. Joost in Breda. From 1982 onwards he has worked as a freelance photographer in Rotterdam. He also has a large number of publications to his name and he makes posters for, amongst others, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Central Museum Utrecht.

He took part in various group exhibitions, one of them in Museum Boymans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. His work is also included in the collections of the Amsterdam City Archives and the Nederlandse Kunststichting (Dutch Art Foundation). See for more architecture photography ... & see for a a review New York/Nature as Artifice Photography by Journal/Brian Rose ...

TRIBUTE TO AFRO-AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER ROY DECARAVA Photography

Sweet Flypaper of Life: 1950s Harlem in Black & White

by darkjive ...

darkjive

Picture it. I’m in high school, late for the morning bus, desperate for something to read during my lengthy commute. On my Grandmother’s disheveled porch, I find a slightly sunfaded paperback. The book is Sweet Flypaper of Life, with text by Langston Hughes and photography by Roy DeCarava (1955). I toss it in my backpack, completely unaware that:

1. My life would never be the same… I would see the world differently from that day on.

2. That paperback was (at the time) thirty years old and worth nearly 100 bucks. I would only discover its value when I attempted in college to upgrade for a hardcover. Apparently, it’s an exceptionally rare book. And I threw it in my backpack. Did I mention it rained that day?

About the book:

Essentially, the Sweet Flypaper is written from the point of view of an older woman in Harlem who is a fixture in her community. She introduces us to each person in her world. We’re let in on their struggles as well as the hard-fought victories in their lives. The Langston Hughes’ text is accompanied by a memorable photo essay by Roy DeCarava.

How I love this book. It captures a time on the cusp of the Civil Rights Era: a time steeped in the Electrified Delta Blues, in Joe Louis Fights, in Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughn, in Miller High Life, in Dixie Peach pomade. It captures something so timeless that it stays with you…. always. I recommend you discover a copy of your own, but until you do, enjoy the pages I reproduced here for you. Jive on!

The Sweet Flypaper of Life. Photographs by Roy DeCarava. Text by Langston Hughes. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1955. 98 pp. Octavo. Stated First printing. Hardbound quarter cloth in dust jacket. 141 black-and-white illustrations.

In The Photobook: A History, Vol. I Martin Parr and Gerry Badger explain that as the reformist drive of much documentary work began to diminish, supplanted by a more "personal kind of expression," many photographers "rejected the close marriage of image and text that characterized the 1930s documentary photobook. Photography became more overtly elliptical, playing deliberately on the mediums's ambiguities...Sweet Flypaper was published not as an out-and-out social documentary book, but with DeCarava's 'real life' images illustrating a fictional text by Hughes about life in Harlem...The most significant feature of The Sweet Flypaper of Life (apart from its great title) is not its indeterminate status as fact, fiction, or even 'faction', but that a leading mainstream publisher took the chance of publishing a view of a minority community from the 'inside'."

The Making of a Photobook: Sanne Sannes’ Maquette for Diary of an Erotomaniac Photography

The Making of a Photobook:

Sanne Sannes’ Maquette for Diary of an Erotomaniac

Tamara Berghmans

Rijksmuseum Studies in Photography 6

Volume 6 of the Rijksmuseum Studies in Photography focuses on the maquette for Dagboek van een erotomaan by Sanne Sannes. Tamara Berghmans not only reconstructs the way Sannes shaped it over the years but also examines Sannes’ imagery and the international setting for nude photography in the Sixties. Although Sannes was not the only one to adopt female eroticism as his main theme, he proved to be a highly original photographer.

Sannes had worked on the maquette from approximately 1964 until his death in 1967, and he was in the throes of negotiating an American edition for international distribution. This might well have led to his breakthrough outside the Netherlands.

To say that Sannes was interested in women would be an understatement: he was obsessed by them and they are almost exclusively the subject of his photographs. Sannes was careful not to stray into pornography, a concern shared by his American agent who foresaw problems with US censorship if the book was too explicit. Sannes’ abrupt death put an end to these considerations (and to their discussion of other matters concerning the layout and the character of the book).

Manfred & Hanna Heiting Fund / Rijksmuseum

56 pages 40 full colour illustrations € 22,95

Sanne Sannes is mentioned in authoritative international publications on photobooks : Foto in omslag. Het Nederlandse documentaire fotoboek na 1945 / Photography between Covers. The Dutch Documentary Photobook after 1945 (Amsterdam 1989) by Mattie Boom; The Book of 101 Books (New York 2001) by Andrew Roth; the Photobook : A History. Volume I (London 2004) by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger; and the retrospective work on nude photography Livre de Nus (Paris 2007) by Alessandro Bertolotti. Sannes is discussed in various serveys of Dutch photography such as Fotografie in Nederland 1940 - 1975 (The Hague 1978); Roots + Turns. 20th Century Photography in The Netherlands (The Hague 1988); Fotografen in Nederland: een anthologie 1852 - 2002 (Ghent / The Hague 2002); and the recently published reference work Dutch Eyes. A Critical History of the Photography in The Netherlands (Zwolle 2007).Sannes also appears on the web. For instance, the blog Bint Photobooks devotes attention to him and posts its own films on his photobooks on YouTube. The main source that articles and publications draw on is art historian Cecile van der Harten's master's thesis Sanne Sannes - fotograaf (1988). This initial study consists of an extensive inventory of the unordered material in Sannes' archive. Van der Harten compiled a meticulous bibliography and an overview of his exhibitions and offered a good interpretation of the themes and topics in the photographer's oeuvre.

See for Dutch Books of Nudes Alessandro Bertolotti Sanne Sannes Anthon Beeke Ed van der Elsken Ginger Gordon Diana Blok Graphic Design Typography Photography ...

See also Het uur van de wolf: De vrouwen van Sanne Sannes a documentary ... After seeing a book of photos, Frodo Terpstra became captivated by the life and work of photographer Sanne Sannes, who died in a car accident in 1967 at the age of 30. Who was this man who took experimental, grainy erotic pictures of women? Sannes's photos suggest a degree of intimacy between the models and their photographer. Was he a playboy, some kind of James Dean of photography? To find answers to these and other questions, Terpstra visits relatives, old friends, models and possible loves from Sannes's past. Sannes's brother Rob owns his complete photo archive, but he isn't very communicative about Sannes. He can't seem to answer the question of who his brother actually was. Sannes's college friend Martin didn't know him very well, either. He was more closed than a cocoon." In the voice-over, Terpstra wonders if the pictures tell us something about his inner life, and if the myth of the sex maniac is really appropriate. In between the interviews, we see black-and-white images of Sannes's work and Terpstra divulges his findings and philosophies about who Sannes was and what the key to his work might be. The film is a result of the IDFA scenario workshop, which Terpstra won in 2004. En zie ook Nederlands Fotomuseum verwerft Sanne Sannes ...