Around 1960, Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) put together a photobook on the theme of feest (feast). Drawing from both old and new work, he produced a design that is a sequence of festive occasions: fun, celebration, dancing, music, fairs, carnivals, excitement and euphoria, but also drunkenness and exhaustion in the wee hours. He combined the individual photographs into sparkling and rhythmical pairings, so that a genuine sense of joy emanates from the pages. At the time, for reasons unknown, ...

Sekula's final work dedicated to labor solidarity in and around the docks.

Ship of Fools / The Dockers' Museum is the project on which the US artist and writer Allan Sekula worked during the last three years of his life (2010-2013). The work consists, first, of a corpus of thirty-three framed photographs and two slide projections of in total over one hundred images, all made by the artist (Ship of Fools); second, it contains a gigantic collection of various objects, graphic images, postcards,...

The operative role of the photographic media in making and remaking history.History is increasingly made in images, not only because its records are largely photographic but also because our ideas about the past are formed in visual terms. This book offers a discussion of contemporary art practices which question the received notions of historical representations after the pivotal changes of 1989 in Europe. These art practices reveal, in different ways, the operative role of the photographic ...

Het overzichtsboek UTOPIA OF LIGHT bevat een selectie van ca. 300 fotowerken uit het rijkgeschakeerde oeuvre dat WINFRED EVERS (1954, Haarlem) sinds 1975 heeft opgebouwd.

In de vroege jaren '80 schikte Evers objecten tot kleine stillevens en maakte hij installaties. Hij experimenteerde daarbij net zolang met vormen, texturen en schaduwen tot een sterke compositie ontstond, die hij met zijn technische camera registreerde en na de sessie vernietigde.

Nadat Evers - van meet af aan veeleer schepp...