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 ...

Published by Van Zoetendaal, this special collection of photographs by Dutch documentary filmmaker, author, and photographer Johan van der Keuken offers a fascinating window into the everyday lives of people through portraits, personal moments and many street scenes. With a career that spanned four decades, Van der Keuken was a prolific producer of images of his time, traveling to Greece, Italy, Spain and France, and visiting and documenting iconic cities like New York, Paris and his native A...

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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...

This volume comprises the textual and visual translation of a two-year research trip undertaken by the ArtEZ Dance Academy and its Theory in the Arts research department. The project tackles the praxis and practice of urban dance, its manifestation in public space, making modern dance more accessible to a wider audience, how urban dance is learned and how this can affect ideas and movements, and more. The questions it raised have led to exploring the urban circle form that has emerged ass the...

Kerry James Marshall is een van Noord-Amerika’s belangrijkste hedendaagse kunstenaars en wordt geroemd om zijn werk dat de ondervertegenwoordiging van de zwarte figuur in de Westerse beeldcultuur aankaart. Marshall staat vooral bekend als schilder, maar heeft tijdens zijn carrière ook een uitgebreid grafisch oeuvre geproduceerd, dat nauwelijks gedocumenteerd is. In zijn jeugd leerde hij tekenen en schilderen, maar verdiepte hij zich ook in grafische druktechnieken. Het merendeel van zijn g...

‘100MJ’ concerns an intuitive and personal drawing project about identity by Dutch artist Bas Kosters. The book shows a series of a hundred full page drawings based on the image of Michael Jackson. It is about how people are shaped trough the eyes of others, the reach of recognizability and identity. It plays with the ideas about visual culture and recognizability. In hundred portraits drawn on ephemera Kosters shows, in a poetic manner, man in all their strength.

Over the course of 202-2021, during the pandemic, Kara Walker has produced series of drawings in the style of a medieval 'Book of Hours'. Enigmatic images appear to traverse a range of time periods, from scenes of biblical and mythological origins, to images of historical violence, to others that suggest more recent political strife. The highly personal nature of these images capture Walker's own response to the intersection of past and present as a way to understand our contemporary politica...