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Dutch Photobooks photo-eye's The Best Books of 2013
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Food.Photographs by Henk Wildschut.
Post Editions, 2013. 144 pp., 90 color illustrations, 9½x11".
Publisher's Description
Few subjects evoke as much controversy nowadays as the subject
of food. The world's population continues to grow, and with the
rise in prosperity comes an ever greater need for food that can be
trusted. Inevitably, it seems, this means both an increase in scale
and unceasing technological innovation, with unpredictable results
at times.
If critical documentary makers point out the pitfalls, false
assumptions and deception in the food industry, the branch itself
advertises its wares with nostalgic images of cows in the meadow
and heads of corn swaying in the morning sun. Images that the
consumer all too willingly embraces.
Meanwhile, scandals in the food chain fuel our desire for a
transparent world where food can once more be cultivated reliably
and at a modest scale. The present lack of transparency and the
fact that few know the real state of play have elicited the widest
range of opinions about how our food can best be produced. The
one scientific study refutes conclusions drawn in the other. Indeed,
the issue is so complex and inclusive that every discussion seems
doomed to sink under its own weight.
For Food, Henk Wildschut immersed himself in the world of today's
farmer whom he originally saw as the most important innovator in
the food production process. But even here appearances are
deceptive: farmers are often forced to switch to a method of
husbandry where efficiency and scaling-up are the name of the
game, all under the banner of public health, food safety, the
environment and animal welfare. This holds equally for organically
produced food.
In his endeavour to get to grips with the production and
processing of food Wildschut, rather than restricting himself to
modern farming, also directs his quest at vegetable breeders and
cultivators, stock farms, hatcheries, fish farms, laboratories,
inspection bodies and suppliers of abattoir equipment. Theirs is a
squeaky-clean world where rules, regulations and protocols are
riveted together in the stainless-steel abstraction of the industrial
scheme of things; a world that often seems such a far cry from the
food itself.
The Secret History of KhavaGaisanova.
& The North Caucasus.By Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen.
The Sochi Project, 2013. 352 pp., 32 page insert and
107 color illustrations, 8x10½".
Signed copies available to order!
Publisher's Description
Khava Gaisanova lives in Chermen, a village in the
heart of the North Caucasus. In 2007 her husband
disappeared, like so many men in the North Caucasus
disappear without a trace – kidnapped, arrested or
simply executed and buried in anonymous graves.
Writer Arnold van Bruggen and photographer Rob
Hornstra met her by chance and became intrigued by
her story, which is drenched with blood but
punctuated by the will to survive. Hornstra and Van
Bruggen then came to the attention of the security
forces, who ultimately prevented them from travelling
through the region. Even the strong Khava was
intimidated and her family has avoided all contact
since. Khava’s history reads like the history of the
North Caucasus itself.
Hornstra and Van Bruggen have visited the North
Caucasus numerous times between 2009 and 2012.
They too became victims of the violence, corruption
and abuse of power that have plagued the region for
centuries. This book is a penetrating account of their
travels.
Cut Shaving, the Xerox Edition.Photographs by Jaap Scheeren.
FW: Books, 2013. 144 pp., color and black & white
illustrations, 8½x11½".
Publisher's Description
'Fresh anarchy' is a way to describe the work of Dutch
photographer Jaap Scheeren. With his own, slightly
absurdistic, style he investigates the coherence
between reality and photography. By doing so
Scheeren developed a visual world in which he follows
its own intuition, logic and rules. Always with a
humorous twist. 'Cut Shaving, The Xerox Edition'
combines for the first time all of Scheeren's work. The
publication explores ways of reproducing
photography, photo-books and visual archives,
resulting in a a fresh and anarchistic publication that is
not just documenting his oeuvre, but also becomes
part of it.
The Arrangement.By Ruth van Beek.
RVB Books, 2013. 48 pp., 28 collages and 13 illustrations, 9¾x13¼".
Publisher's Description
The Arrangement is a group of images Ruth Van Beek made with a
collection of books on flower arranging.She has been collecting
books on this subject for years, mostly instructional books dating
from fifties to the the seventies. They combine colorful stillives of
flowerarrangements with the functional photograhphy of a
manual.Ruth Van Beek is specialy interested in the translation of the
strict rules and symbols of Japanese Ikebana into instructional books
for Dutch housewifes.
Via PanAm*By Kadir van LohuizenParadox and Ydoc Publishing
Over the course of a year, Van Lohuizen travelled from the southernmost tip of South America tothe northernmost tip of Alaska, visualizing migration along the PanAmerican Highway. Partly dueto the addition of stories, charts and graphs, the book has become an intriguing reference work. See more at:http://blog.photoeye.com/2014/01/bestbooks2013robhornstra.html#sthash.a6WXeNF9.dpuf
Paris Mortel.Photographs by Johan van der Keuken.
Van Zoetendaal Publishers, 2013. 188 pp., color and black & white
illustrations, 7½x10¼".
Publisher's Description
In 1956 Johan van der Keuken (1938-2001) moved from Amsterdam
to Paris to study at the School of Film. There Van der Keuken took
thousands of photographs, the city acting as a background to his
feelings of desolation. In 1963 a selection of these were published
in a book called 'Paris Mortel'. The complete book, including the
original dummy Van der Keuken made and a few previously
unpublished photographs are collected in this publication.
Studio Paradiso.Photographs by Max Natkiel.
Voetnoot, 2013. 624 pp., illustrated throughout, 9x9½".
Publisher's Description
As a frequent visitor to concerts at Paradiso,
Amsterdam?s long-running music venue, in the early
1980s, Dutch photographer Max Natkiel encountered
all manner of subcultures: punks, new-wavers,
rockers, mods, Rastafarians, squatters, and metal-
and skinheads. Eventually he decided to bring along
his camera and started making portraits of the
fascinating people he found; a collection eventually
numbering over 1000. A selection of about 600 of
these black and white photographs appears here,
reflecting the explosion of pure youth culture and
fierce desire for individuality he experienced in the
decade between 1980-1990. With an introduction by
philosopher Dirk van Weelden.
The Gospel of the Photographer.Photographs by Elisabeth Tonnard.
Elisabeth Tonnard, 2013. 64 pp., 25 color illustrations,
8¼x6".
Signed copies available!
Publisher's Description
What would it be like if Jesus had been a
photographer? What would he have done differently
and which images would he have snapped? The
Gospel of the Photographer imagines this possible
world through a rewriting of the gospel of Mark.
Words from the gospel were replaced by words
connected to photography, resulting in a booby
trapped text in which photography appears as an
agent of miracles and healing-and announces itself
ultimately as the new religion. The book includes
twenty-five newly discovered photographs.
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still
dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place,
and there he took photographs. And Simon and those
who were with him searched for him, and they found
him and said to him, 'Everyone is looking for you.' And
he said to them, 'Let us go on to the next towns, that
I may take photographs there also, for that is what I
came for.' And he went throughout all Galilee,
photographing in their synagogues and casting out
demons.
Yoshino.Photographs by Cuny Janssen.
Snoeck, 2013. 58 pp., 20 color illustrations, 18x13¾".
Publisher's Description
'Ever since the day I saw the blossoming treetops in
the Yoshino's mountains, my heart has left my body
behind', wrote the Japanese poet Saigyõ in the
twelfth century. And even in those days, the area
planted with over 30,000 cherry trees flanking the
Yoshino Mountains must have been an awe-inspiring
sight and make it an eloquent witness today to man's
harmonious design for luxuriant nature, so
characteristic for Japan. For over 1,400 years, the
temple, the mountain slopes and the river in Nara
prefecture are thus part of the Spring cherry blossom
season in the Buddhist pilgrim calendar; in former
times, it was the preserve of the aristocracy, today
Yoshino is a popular tourist attraction.
With 19 major cross-format photographs, Cuny
Janssen has gathered together not only captivating
and sensitive nature shots from Yoshino in her
unusual book of photographs, but has also included a
small anthology of Japanese poetry compiled by Jos
Vos, which the Dutch Japan specialist rounds up with
a travel essay, 'A fox in Yoshino'. In a way rivalled by
almost no other contemporary photographer, Cuny
Janssen knows how to structure her books to suit the
given topic - in Yoshino for example she increases the
calm and contemplative mood of her photographs with
a selection brittle poetry that celebrates of this site of
Japanese longing.
Viviane Sassen.In and Out of Fashion.
Photographs by Viviane Sassen.
Prestel, Lakewood, 2012. 260 pp., 250 color illustrations,
9x11".
Publisher's Description
Following the success of Parasomnia, this major new
book focuses on the fashion photography of Viviane
Sassen.
Bringing together 17 years of work in the fashion
world, this eye-catching volume features selections
from Sassen’s awardwinning series and campaigns for
Stella McCartney, Adidas, Carven, Bergdorf Goodman,
MiuMiu, and M Missoni, along with editorials for
magazines such as the New York Times Magazine, i-D,
Numéro, Purple, AnOther Magazine, Dazed
&Confused, Fantastic Man, and POP. Sassen’s intuitive
and imaginative style can be flamboyant,
contemplative, erotic, and surreal, often
simultaneously. This volume includes essays that offer
a context for Sassen’s work in the history of fashion
photography as well as a bibliography of nearly all of
her fashion series. The book will be a delight for
Sassen’s many fans and those eager for inspiration or
beautiful escape.
Read Christopher J. Johnson's review of In and Out of
Fashion on photo-eye Blog.
Easter and Oak Trees.Photographs by Bertien van Manen.
MACK, 2013. 112 pp., 25 tritone illustrations, 6½x8".
Publisher's Description
Bertien van Manen’s blissful images of family holidays
in den Eikenhorst (literally meaning Nest of Oak Trees)
from the 1970s are the subject of her latest
publication, Easter and Oak Trees.
It was her son, one of the primary subjects in the
series, who recently reminded van Manen of the
archive. Lightness dominates these black and white
images, and the obvious pleasure, family warmth and
security of her children and family in the less politically
correct ‘70s. Children pose, play and run but ultimately
the photographs communicate the intimate comfort
that comes with family, uninhibited in their expression
and exposure to the camera. Easter and Oak Trees
offers an enticing invitation to share a small part of
this familial idyll.
The images raise the question, could a photographer
still do this in 2013? Could she photograph her
children naked, footloose and carefree, acting up to
the camera with fake cigarettes and a bottle of beer?
Or is this spontaneity, this innocence, lost thanks to
rancid affairs and small-minded moralism?
Whilst this work is some of the earliest made by van
Manen, it has all the qualities found in her mature
work. “One recognizes the lyrical looseness, the
sensuality and the melancholy but also a striving for
balance and composition. Her photographs look like
free, insouciant improvisations on themes, that later,
in ‘a Hundred Summers a Hundred Winters’ or in ‘East
Wind West Wind’ have taken shape in a more
outspoken way”. Hripsimé Visser