Peter Fink (1907, Grand Rapids - 1984, New York City) bereiste in den 1950er- bis 1970er-Jahren die Welt und fotografierte an abgelegenen Orten und in Industriestädten der Nachkriegszeit in Japan, Frankreich, Portugal, Nordafrika und im Mittleren Osten. Kunst und Kultur sind wiederkehrende Themen, ebenso wie das Leben von Arbeitern, Familien oder Kindern an jedem Ort, den er besuchte. Daneben entstanden expressive Porträts und Modefotografien, surreale Stillleben oder seine

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In 2018 Stephan Keppel started collecting works and stories of Amsterdam; the city where he lives, and works. The city is constantly changing, and so are the visible, invisible, social, and historic structures. In ‘Soft Copy Hard Copy’ Stephan Keppel explores and organizes these structures, creating an organic index of the city. This book is part of Keppel's ongoing research on the public space, urban structures and reproduction, and is combining his own photographs with re-photographed a...

This is the third publication in which Awoiska probes deeply into the essence of the remote unspoiled natural worlds where her images are created. The book is published alongside the music composition ‘The Living Mountain’ written by Thomas Larcher as composer-in-residence at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. The music piece draws inspiration from photographs that Awoiska made for Larcher in the mountains of his native Tirol (Austria). The monochrome landscapes are combined with Larcher’s...

Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has had a central place in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities. Migrant histories have been mediated through the photographic image, and the cultural practices of photography have themselves been transformed as migrant communities mobilise the photographic image to navigate experiences of cultural dislocation and the forging of new identities. Exploring photographic images and the cultural practices of photography as ‘conta...

Beauty amid the suffering and struggle: unique lockdown impressions from more than 60 cities. World-renowned sites and monuments as never seen them before. A photographic record of an extraordinary period in history.

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, ...