Kunstenaar Jacquie Maria Wessels (1959) studeerde fotografie aan de Gerrit Rietveld Academie en sociale psychologie aan de Vrije Universiteit. Haar werk is gerelateerd aan de documentairefotografie en is meestal het resultaat van een langdurige verdieping in een welbepaald onderwerp.

Het werk dat in dit boek aan bod komt ontstaat wanneer Wessels het wonderlijke universum van traditionele garages ontdekt: ze raakt gefascineerd door de vormen en kleuren van de mysterieuze en onbekende voorwerpe...

When the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris asked Ari Marcopoulos to curate an exhibition around their acquisition ‘Brown Bag’, a short film on skateboarders in New York that he made in 1993, he was given access to the museum’s collection of over 15,000 works. He looked for themes related to the body, injuries, and architecture, along with what he perceived as challenging and puzzling works. Some of the artists were already familiar, while others were new to him. The process was not so dif...

In september 1939 werden duizenden Duitse soldaten op Polen losgelaten. In 1940 overrompelden ze Nederland, België en Frankrijk. In 1941 waren de Balkan en de USSR aan de beurt. Sommigen vertrokken met de oficiële opdracht om foto’s te nemen, anderen legden gebeurtenissen vast op verzoek van hun aanvoerder. Hun wapens voor deze activiteiten waren Leica- en Rolleifex- camera’s. Het waren stuk voor stuk anonieme mensen die met het ongehoorde geconfronteerd werden. Samen met de algemene ...

Charlotte Dumas spent a few months in the spring of 2006 living in a tiny rooftop accommodation in Palermo, overlooking the city. The photographer became fascinated with a pack of stray dogs hanging around the park across the street, watching them lazing in the shade or listening to their barking at night. Over time, she became familiar with different packs of dogs, each with their own territory in the old parts of town. They roamed around the harbour and in the street markets, circling the b...

In her work, which originates in her ever-growing archive, Ruth van Beek often uses the established visual codes of photography. The images, mainly from old books, become her tools, source material, and context. Van Beek physically intervenes in the pictures – folding, cutting, or adding pieces of painted paper – rearranging and manipulating the image long enough to reveal the universe that lies within. ‘The Oldest Thing’ features numerous collages, archival images, and paintings in a...

Dana Lixenberg’s ‘Polaroid 54/59/79’ is remarkable collection reflecting the American celebrity culture she encountered in the 1990s and 2000s. It takes us back to the heyday of print media, when photos were primarily analogue. The title refers to the types of peel-apart instant film Lixenberg used between 1993 and 2010, when Polaroid prints formed an essential part of her work process, serving as test and reference material for lighting and composition. She made these Polaroid tests in...