The book traces the exceptional career of Ruud van Empel, a pioneer in digital construction. Van Empel reveals an ability to capture the delicacy of the world through his works: editing and composing, from patiently collected and selected photographs he took himself. Ruud van Empel plays with our perception of reality and timeless, showing realistic but undoubtedly utopian portraits and landscapes.

With nearly 400 images that include photo sketches, enigmatic portraits, and lush nature, the ...

Parliaments of the European Union van de Nederlandse fotograaf Nico Bick (1964) biedt een unieke fotografische kijk op de ruimten voor plenaire vergaderingen waarin de Europese democratie daadwerkelijk wordt gerealiseerd. Het boek bevat foto's van de ruimten waar de parlementen van de 28 lidstaten van de Europese Unie en de twee Europese parlementen in Brussel en Straatsburg hun voltallige vergaderingen houden. Elk van deze ruimten is in drie of vier foto's gefotografeerd vanuit een enkel sta...

This project by Dutch photographer Mariken Wessels (1963) is a multifaceted artistic translation of her fascination with an anonymous woman who posed for Eadweard Muybridge’s camera in 1885. In the 24-image sequence “Arising from the Ground”, the obese woman, who was supposedly named Miss Cox, can be observed as she moves from lying down to a fully upright position. Wessels was inspired by this woman to start making large clay sculptures and photographing obese female models swimming un...

What Is This Thing Called Polaroid? gaat over de bijzondere kwaliteiten van Polaroid-fotografie en de rol die dit medium speelt in het werk van de kunstenaar Ulay. Al vanaf de jaren 1970 onderzoekt Ulay de mogelijkheden van Polaroid, leidend tot radicaal en baanbrekend werk. Het eenmalige en onmiddellijke karakter van elke individuele Polaroidfoto sluit goed aan bij Ulays performance-kunst en body art. Ulays experimenten gaan zo ver dat hij uiteindelijk zelf ín een grote Polaroidcamera is ga...

In this revised and redesigned edition of Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation, renowned photographer Eve Arnold takes us on a photographic journey of Marilyn Monroe's life.

Exploring the epistemological potential of meta- and inter-images.

Since the 1990s, when the question of the visual became central in various arts and humanities disciplines, images that refer to themselves as such or to other images have enjoyed an increasing interest. 'Meta- and Inter-Images in Contemporary Visual Art and Culture' partakes in, enriches and updates these debates. It investigates what meta- and inter-images can make known about the visual, in its own terms, by its own means.

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The project of Sanne Peper about The Deep South, a highly complex and interesting part of the US has culminated in the publication of 'Slowtime, Alabama & The Beautiful Sadness', a fairytale-like photo/text book about good and evil, the human condition, an alt-right chipmunk who goes by the name of Jeremiah Day, and ultimately about the fear of the other. Half of the book consists of photographs, but Sanne Peper also wrote about things she experienced and the tales people told her. Of this sh...

By examining photography through geography and philosophy, this book makes evident that place is not the content of a definite representation. To do this, it breaks down the participatory elements of photography into six tropes: the photographer, the camera, the photograph, the image, the spectator, and the genre. Afterwards, through a rigorous theoretical analysis of each of these themes vis-à-vis the notion of place, it shows how they manifest inactive, contingent, unlocalizable, liminal, ...

What is it like to attend a museum today?

In fifteen emblems, each made of one photograph and one lyrical text, Limonard looks closely at what we may experience at the Rijks Museum and Rembrandt House in Amsterdam.

The emblems evoke Old Masters, Lost Companions, Recovery Rooms, a live Performance, the Sense of Touch, The Hunt for Satisfaction, Etiquette, and more.

In 1999, a short video of a solitary boy kicking an empty bottle up a hill in Mexico City became the first instalment of Children’s Games, a series of works by artist Francis Alÿs (b. Antwerp, 1959). The ongoing project, which now numbers around thirty-five works, has gradually given shape to an extensive collection of videos of children at play. For almost twenty years, Alÿs and his collaborators Félix Blume, Julien Devaux, and Rafael Ortega have been travelling around the world to docu...