The Long Way Home of Ivan Putnik, Truck Driver

is a collection of photographs and notes on the surroundings of remote Siberian roads and towns. Presented as an archive from a truck driver named Ivan Putnik, the photographs are actually made by various amateur photographers who uploaded the photospheres to Google Street View.

Fascinated by the visual variety, Vaste Programme (IT) recontextualized the images to create a fictional story. Apart from showing life in a remote area of the world, th...

‘Afstand houden’ is het mantra van overheden wereldwijd om de coronapandemie onder controle te krijgen. De maatregelen die ons anderhalf jaar tot social distancing dwingen, laten diepe sporen achter in onze samenleving. Het Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam gaf Henk Wildschut in 2020 de opdracht ‘Document Nederland’ om deze sporen te documenteren. De foto’s in dit boek geven een beeld van een geladen tijd. Hoe zorgpersoneel en wetenschappers achter de schermen hun werk deden, de openbare rui...

The Novogen is a breed of chicken that was developed in order to use its eggs in the production of pharmaceutical products such as medicines and vaccines. Through an investigation of the industrialised farming of the Novogen White Light variant, Dániel Szalai raises questions and dilemmas regarding technology and our relation with nature. The book centres around an extensive series of portraits of individual chickens along with images which document the production of vaccines. Szalai believe...

Carlo and Luciana come from a small town in Italy, Vignola, in the province of Modena. We first meet them at around 20 to 30 years of age, in black-and-white photographs. Many of these snapshots were taken on the road. This marks the beginning of their personal project of photographing each other in the same spot. Yet it is not until later, past the blank pages symbolic of their working years, that we really get to know how Carlo and Luciana explored the world. In almost every picture – sam...

This richly illustrated anthology about film and photography between 1919 -1939 offers a range of new perspectives on European lens media cultures. It is a collection of 18 original essays by prominent scholars and experts presenting hitherto unseen material, original case-studies and critical reflections of concepts such as ‘the new vision’, ‘das Unheimliche’ as well as imagery ranging from aerial views to microphotography, from geopolitical mappings to race biological typologies, fr...

With an ironic and brazen look, Lisette Model was able to capture in her shots the most grotesque aspects of postwar American society.

Published on the occasion of the first Italian anthological exhibition dedicated to her, the volume retraces the successful work of Lisette Model, an artist of Austrian origin who had great importance in the development of photography in the Fifties and Sixties.

Parallel to her teaching activity - she had among her students authors who later became famous such...

Samen met het Nederlands Fotomuseum geeft Lecturis 'In de hoofdrol Chas Gerretsen' uit. Deze monografie vertelt het bijzondere levensverhaal van Charles (Chas) Gerretsen (1943), een uitzonderlijke fotograaf. Hij werkte behalve als oorlogsverslaggever in Azië ook als fotograaf in Hollywood, waar hij de set van de filmklassieker ‘Apocalypse Now’ fotografeerde en vele filmsterren in hun toen nog jonge jaren. De fotografie van Chas Gerretsen, wiens levensverhaal leest als een spannend boe...