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December 2, 2008

 
Sanne Sannes: 1960s Nudes from Holland
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Vintage 1960s Dutch Erotica © Estate of Sanne Sannes, courtesy of HUP Gallery, Amsterdam


On a recent trip to Amsterdam, I was delighted to discover an exhibition of vintage photographs by Dutch photographer Sanne Sannes at the HUP Gallery. I had never heard of Sannes before, probably because he died too early, at age 30, in a drunken car crash while he was on a meteoric rise in his photographic career.

The photos, all printed by Sannes himself, represent a wide range of experimental photographs that have a distinctly 1960s decadent feel to them. Martin Parr and Gerry Badger included Sannes' book, Sex a Gogo, in Volume 1 of their History of the Photobook (so, it is impossible to find a realistically priced copy of that book now, of course).

You can see a small selection of images from Sannes, and learn more about his short career, in this article in Lens Culture.

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