
The Dutch Photobook: A Thematic Selection from 1945 Onwards
Publisher's Description
The Dutch photobook is internationally celebrated for its particularly close collaboration between photographer, printer and designer. The current photobook publishing boom in the Netherlands stems from a tradition of excellence that precedes World War II, but the postwar years inaugurated a period of particularly close collaboration between photographers and designers, producing such unique photography books as Ed van der Elsken’s Love on the Left Bank (1956) and Koen Wessing’s Chili September 1973 (1973). Innovations such as the photo novel and the company photobook blossomed in the 1950s and 60s; later, other genres emerged to characterize the publishing landscape in Holland, including conceptual and documentary photobooks, books on youth culture, urbanism photobooks and landscape photobooks and travelogues.
Examining each of these genres across six themed chapters, The Dutch Photobook features
selections from more than 100 historical, contemporary and self-published photobook projects.
It includes landmark publications such as Hollandse taferelen by Hans Aarsman (1989), The Table
of Power by Jacqueline Hassink (1996), Why Mister Why by Geert van Kesteren (2006) and Empty
Bottles by WassinkLundgren (2007). Dutch photo historians Frits Gierstberg and Rik Suermondt
contribute several essays on the history of the genre, the collaborative efforts between
photographers and designers and their inspiration and influences, complementing the high-
quality reproductions of photobooks throughout. Award-winning designer Joost Grootens
contributes unique charts and diagrams that consolidate all of these elements, in a visually
unique map of the Dutch photobook.
ISBN: 1597112003
Publisher: Aperture
Hardcover : 240 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 10 x 11.3 x 1.1 inches
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Publisher: Aperture
Hardcover : 240 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 10 x 11.3 x 1.1 inches