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Background information
"The out-of-print photo book compendium 'The Dutch Photobook' describes the relatively recent history of the famed Dutch photobook. Editors Rik Suermondt and Frits Gierstberg chose over 120 of the most significant Dutch photo books and placed them in the context of developments in photography and society." (© Aperture, 2012)
Content (as a review)
"Holland has a tradition of creativity in design, printing and the visual arts. 'The Dutch Photobook' features 124 photobooks (just over half published since 1983) divided into six chapters: landscape; youth; industry; travel; city; art. To reflect the broad scope of editorial the section on industry includes several corporate titles essentially used as company promotions but still full of creative images. Perhaps the biggest difference between Dutch photobooks and the Japanese/Latin American titles is the look of the books. Though it's not possible to comment on the printing of the books shown here the layout, typography and photos are of a high order. The format is the same as 'Japanese Photobook' and 'Latin American Photobook' editions: the cover of each book is shown followed by several spreads with a technical caption relating to size, pages, publisher, print run et cetera. Also each book has a very comprehensive and detailed analysis of the photographs, who took them and why, the designer and publisher. The book's production really can't be faulted, excellent matt paper for the 300 screen images and a nice touch is printing all the black and whites in four color. The back pages have several indices: a timeline; photographers; designers; book size; print runs. These pages look rather intriguing because they all use small thumbnails of the 124 book covers.
'The Dutch photobook' continues the very high editorial standard set in of two previous released photobooks about the Japanese and the Latin American Photobook. Here is to be congratulated on publishing another excellent photo book to go with their Japanese and Latin American editions. Both of these are quite different from this latest title, 'The Dutch Photobook': the 'Japanese Photobook' pages reflect a much more personal photo style and the 'Latin American Photobook' features a lot more overtly political titles." (slightly adapted text, © Robin BENSON)
About the photographers represented in 'The Dutch Photobook' with their photo books
- Hans AARSMAN, Oscar van ALPHEN, Emmy ANDRIESSE, Theo BAART, Jan BANNING, Anna BEEKE, Wout BERGER, Korrie BESEMS, Eva BESNYÖ, Carel BLAZER, Sara BLOKLAND, Henze BOEKHOUT, Paul BOGAERS, Marrie BOT, Machiel BOTMAN, Kim BOUVY, Koos BREUKEL, Martien COPPENS, Anton CORBIJN, Violette CORNELIUS, Wim DAVIDS, Alan DAVID-TU, Ger DEKKERS, Ad van DENDEREN, Willem DIEPRAAM, Hans EIJKELBOOM, Ed van der ELSKEN, Ilse FRECH, Daan van GOLDEN, Marnix GOOSSENS, Martijn van de GRIENDT, Jacqueline HASSINK, Carel van HEES, Dirk de HERDER, Paul den HOLLANDER, Rob HORNSTRA, Judith van IJKEN, Cuny JANSSEN, Cor JARING, Nico JESSE, Gerald van der KAAP, Ata KANDÓ, Erik KESSELS, Geert van KESTEREN, Johan van der KEUKEN, Aart KLEIN, Geert KOOIMAN, Anouk KRUITHOF, Dana LIXENBERG, Kadir van LOHUIZEN, Bertien van MANEN, Cary MARKERINK, Hans van der MEER, Christian MEINDERTSMA, Emiel van MOERKERKEN, Max NATKIEL, Paul de NOOIJER, Erwin OLAF, Paulien OLTHETEN, Michel PELLANDERS, Willem POPELIER, Frits ROTGANS, Laura ROUS, Frank van der SALM, Hans SAMSON, Sanne SANNES, Viviane SASSEN, Jaap SCHEEREN, Kees SCHERER, Otto SNOEK, Bart SORGEDRAGER, Petra STAVAST, Martine STIG, Niels STOMPS, Andrea STULTIENS, Michel Szulc KRZYZANOWSKI, Dolf TOUSSAINT, Ari VERSLUIS & Elie UYTTENBROEK, Roy VILLEVOYE, Hannes WALLRAFEN, WASSINKLUNDGREN, Cor van WEELE, Hans WERLEMANN, Gerard WESSEL, Koen WESSING, Henk WILDSCHUT
Photobooks by the photographers represented in the volume 'The Dutch Photobook'
- AARSMAN, Hans
ANDRIESSE, Emmy
BAAART, Theo
BANNING, Jan
BERGER, WOUT
BESEMS, Korrie
BESNYÖ, Eva
BLOKLAND, SaraBOTMAN, Machiel
BOUVY, Kim
BREUKEL, Koos
CORBIJN, Anton
DENDEREN, Ad van
DIEPRAAM, Willem
EIJKELBOOM, Hans
ELSKEN, Ed van der
FRECH, Ilse
GOOSSENS, Marnix
GRIENDT, Martijn van de
HASSINK, Jacqueline
HORNSTRA, Rob
IJKEN, Judith van
JANSSEN, Cuny
JESSE, Nico
KANDÓ, Ata
KESSELS, Erik
KESTEREN, Geert van
KEUKEN, Johan van der
KRUITHOF, Anouk
LIXENBERG, Dana
LOHUIZEN, Kadir van
MANEN, Bertien van
MARKERINK, Cary
MEER, Hans van der
OLAF, Erwin
POPELIER, Willem
SALM, Frank van der
SANNES, Sanne
SASSEN, Vivian
SCHEEREN, Jaap
SCHERER, Kees
SNOEK, Otto
SORGEDRAGER, Bart
STAVAST, Petra
STOMPS, Niels
STULTIENS, Andrea
WASSINKLUNDGREN
WESSING, Koen
WILDSCHUT, Henk
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Rik Suermondt
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 29 x 3,5 cm., 240 pp., highly color & b/w illustrated, text language: English