Brochure Autumn 2023

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Uxua Utopia (page 7)

CONTENTS

4 George Michael

Godfried Nevels

5 Philips in the Netherlands

Bert Tip

6 Lara de Moor

Still Point

7 Uxua Utopia

Lidewij Edelkoort

8 Basic Lines

Theo Barten

9 Being Teased

Hanneke Wetzer en Tatum Hoetmer

10 Book of Son’s

Tara Wray

11 Ad van Denderen

Onderweg

12 How shall we greet the sun

Thana Faroq

13 Chile The photo archive 1973/74

Chas Gerretsen

14 Polaroids and Portraits Pieter Vandermeer

15 Venus Veldhoen

16 SYNC Maria Dabrowski

17 Noctambule Bart Koetsier

18 The Dream Vehicle WitkowskaVerbunt

19 European Cowboy Bjorn Staps

20 Searching for the Soul of Service Stations

21 Refugium

Esther Hessing en Annemieke Fierinck

22 Alles heeft zijn tijd

Marijke A. Deege

23 Recent verschenen

George Michael

George Michael

“George Michael was a hero to many but unfortunately left us too soon. Godfried Nevels tells us everything we didn’t know about him. A must for the fans!” – Erik de Zwart

What was the salvation for Wham! when the pop duo was almost dropped by their record company after two flopped singles? Why did American singer Lynda Hayes turn down the offer to record Guilty Feet, an early version of the song that would later become the world hit Careless Whisper? And why did George Michael sing the duet I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) with Aretha Franklin instead of Whitney Houston as intended?

This book answers all these questions… and more! In George Michael we get to know the British singer through the eyes of the people who experienced him up close. Such as his music teacher at high school, the saxophonist of Careless Whisper, the songwriter of I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me), the fashion models in the music video of Freedom ‘90 and the journalist who interviewed George extensively about his coming out. In addition, for the first time you can read the complete story about the recording of the first demo of Wham!

Dutch anecdotes about George Michael are also featured in this book, including Stine Jensen’s spontaneous meeting with George. Supplemented with personal anecdotes from well-known artists such as Don McLean, Sananda Maitreya, Jimmy Chambers (Londonbeat), Simon Climie (Climie Fisher), Chris Jasper (The Isley Brothers) and Adamski, George Michael is a book full of unique and special stories about British pop icon. The foreword was written by Erik de Zwart.

Godfried Nevels (1973) is a freelance journalist, writer and music critic. He previously published the books Forever 27, I Love 80’s Music and In Search of Elvis. He also writes articles and reviews for a number of music magazines.

size 170 x 240 mm

volume 304 pages hardcover

design Lecturis release in October/November

NUR 661

ISBN 9789462264878

€ 35,00

Text: Godfried Nevels

Godfried Nevels

Godfried Nevels

Philips in the Netherlands

Text: Bert Tip

Philips’ industrial footprint in the Netherlands

Philips is a fascinating company. It has grown from a ‘light bulb factory in the south of the country’ into a global concern with an enormous diversity of products. Philips then focused on health technology. A company that makes a difference around the world through meaningful innovation. Then and now.

In this book, Philips manager Bert Tip takes the reader on a time journey through all Dutch Philips branches that have ever existed, using unique photographic material. From the smallest assembly workshops in rented village halls to the large factory complexes, where thousands of employees were employed.1

This second completely revised edition contains 624 pages (the first edition had 472 pages) and includes an extra chapter, with more than 250 unique photos, which visually illustrate the development of Philips’ industrial footprint in the Netherlands. The transformations of several former Philips locations are also described. In short, a fascinating story that will appeal to everyone with a blue Philips heart.

Dutch and English

size 235 x 270 mm

volume 624 pagina’s hardcover

design Nika grafische vormgeving release in August

NUR 696

ISBN 9789462264809

€ 45,00

Bert Tip

Is a Philips manager and author of several books about Philips. The first edition of Philips in the Netherlands was published by Kimabo in Zaltbommel (2020).

Unveiling of Gerard Philips statue, May 2023, Eindhoven

Lara de Moor Still Point

Jurriaan Benschop:

“(…) What is objectively present or hanging in the air cannot be so sharply separated from what appears to the painter or what lies dormant in the viewer. The painting appears as an ideal projection surface.”

Joost Zwagerman:

“(…) If there is one keyword in her work, it is the silence, it is a silence that buzzes behind the canvas of the painting. We don’t know who is whispering, they are whispering paintings, where a lot has happened or is about to happen.”

Text: Lara de Moor en Jurriaan Benschop

Could a space absorb the events of a lifetime and thus freeze time?

Lara de Moor makes paintings of places with testimonial value. They are places where she has lived or visited. In these spaces she builds still lifes that sometimes border on installations but can also be limited to a single comment.

Her paintings often show charged situations in which emptiness and absence are palpable. Little happens, yet there are objects and markings that seem to have a tension or hidden purpose. Geometry as a rudiment and translation of the human understanding of the world is increasingly coming to the fore in her recent work. Issues arise such as: where are the boundaries of my being? How can a space influence feelings and thoughts and how do they influence a space? Still Point is the first comprehensive overview of Lara de Moor’s work. The book contains large color and detailed images and provides a clear and insightful picture of her paintings of recent years. A separate section contains photos and notes about her working method, providing insight into her thought process and how she makes interventions in abandoned houses and spaces. Jurriaan Benschop wrote an essay for this book.

Dutch and English

size 230 x 290 mm

volume 144 pagina’s hardcover

design Rutger Fuchs Release in september

NUR 642

ISBN 9789462264885

€ 40,00

Lara de Moor (Den Haag, 1969) currently lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 1993 and subsequently completed the two-year international residency program at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. She has exhibited widely in her native country and internationally in London, Barcelona, Turin, Genoa and several German cities. Her work can be found in numerous private and public art collections. Museum MORE (Gorssel), the largest museum for Modern Realism in Europe, has purchased a number of her works and added them to their permanent collection. Her solo exhibition will start in mid-September 2023 at Museum MORE and will be on view there until March 10, 2024.

Uxua Utopia

UXUA UTOPIA * A VERY GIFTED GUESTHOUSE

A remarkable book about a special hotel in Brazil. The hotel was designed by Wilbert Das (former fashion designer) and his partner Bob Shevlin (former marketing manager).

Lidewij Edelkoort:

‘This is neither a coffee table book nor a travel book. It feels more like an object than a book. The publication is intended as a vision of the future, about how an ideal society could exist in artisanal harmony and in relationship with nature.

The holistic quality of the project commands appreciation. It invites the visitor to further explore the essential pillars of hospitality and humanity, care and wellbeing, education and aesthetics, design and craft and empowerment, gardening and celebration, textiles and art and of course food and drink.

Born from the vision of two design-driven individuals, Dutch designer Wilbert Das and American educator Bob Shevlin, the project soothes and stimulates the senses in equal dimensions. The UXUA hotel is a unique experience for the soul.”

English

size 240 x 330 mm

volume 288 pagina’s hardcover

design Mariola

López Mariño released

NUR 450

ISBN 9789462264694

€ 100,00

Text: Lidewij Edelkoort

Lidewij Edelkoort

Basic Lines

Drawings and text: Theo Barten

In this book, Theo Barten combines his love for architecture and the Klare-Lijn technique in a series of 75 drawings: Architecture with a Twist. The subject is usually a well-known building with an ironic addition. In impossible situations that create an alienating effect, everything is drawn with love for detail. A building is a faithful representation of the real thing, a car is always of a certain brand. It is precisely this combination of realistic subjects that makes it exciting.

True to the clear-line technique, a drawing is drawn up in tight pencil lines. After a series of refinements, the pencil lines are scanned and ‘inked’ into the computer. Then underlying layers with flat colors are added. The result: a powerful graphic appearance.

All drawings have the same format and are on a right-hand page. On the left they are accompanied by an accompanying text on the subject in Dutch and English.

Theo Barten

After completing his time at the academy, he worked for a number of years as a designer at a company and a publishing house. In the meantime, he took on more and more illustration assignments and became a professional illustrator. Barten became known as the illustrator of bicycle subjects for the ANWB. Everything drawn in his favorite style, the Klare-Lijn. Through an Amsterdam agent he received a lot of advertising work that also turned out to be award-winning, including that of the ADCN, the Art Directors Club Netherlands. The need to add informative value caused Barten to create more and more infographics. For years he mainly did that, especially after winning a prize from the BNO. However, the pure drawing work continued to attract him. His love for architecture and the Klare-Lijn have therefore resulted in this book, Basic Lines.

Dutch and English

size 210 x 240 mm volume 152 pagina’s hardcover

design Theo Barten released

NUR 648

ISBN 9789462264755

€ 30,00

Being Teased

Text: Tatum Hoetmer

Drawings : Hanneke Wetzer

‘Inclusive eroticism in text and images’

At a time when every bare breast or buttock in public space causes a stir, Tatum Hoetmer and Hanneke Wetzer dare to write a book with erotic poetry and drawings. The texts and images are an ode to love. “Lust and love are inextricably linked,” says Hoetmer, who wrote the sensual lyrics. ‘Love is the source of all life. It’s too important to be frenetic about it.”

Tatum Hoetmer is a cultural entrepreneur. She is a singer and DJ and with Being Teased she is taking a new path. She has been writing ‘poetry’ for years, which can now be read by others for the first time.

Eindhoven multi-disciplinary artist Hanneke Wetzer drew her first ‘Being’ on January 1, 2016. Since then, she has made one every day, directly with pen on paper, without a sketch beforehand. She doesn’t throw away a single Being, ‘because everyone is allowed to be there,’ she says. ‘Fat, thin, young or old, cisgender or LGBTQIA+, sexual, sensual or stripped of all eroticism. Written in minimal pen strokes, so that everyone can recognize themselves in it.’

Book of Son’s

This book is about the childhood experiences of her identical twin sons in rural Vermont (USA). The photography in the book has both a lyrical and documentary style. It gives an intimate view of part of the family’s life story. The photos in the book are placed in such a way that they flow into each other and overlap, just like memories. Through Wray’s lens, the reader gets a multi-dimensional view of the boys’ shared experiences, as well as her own view of each of them as individuals. The book is a loving work dedicated to her sons and husband, and it follows her previous critically acclaimed works, “Too Tired for Sunshine” and “Year of the Beast,” both of which explore themes of family and childhood through photography.

Tara Wray (1978) is an artist whose practice includes writing, filmmaking, photography and painting. She recently published the photo books Year of the Beast (Too Tired Press, 2021), Too Tired for Sunshine (Yoffy Press, 2018), El Dorado Freddy’s (Belt Publishing, 2020, a collaboration with writer Danny Caine), as well as several artist books in limited Edition. Wray has exhibited her work in galleries and festivals around the world, including Kunst Haus Wien in Vienna, Austria and the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts in Galway, Ireland. Her photographs are held in public and private collections, including the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and the George Eastman Museum. As a filmmaker, Wray has directed two feature-length documentaries, “Manhattan, Kansas” and “Cartoon College.” She lives off-grid in rural Vermont with her family and rescue dog.

size 174 x 205 mm

volume 152 pagina’s softcover

NUR 653

ISBN 9789462264854

€ 40,00

Photography and text: Tara Wray

Ad van Denderen En Route

Appears on the occasion of an exhibition around the oeuvre of Ad van Denderen in the Nederlands Fotomuseum in the autumn/winter of 2023-2024.

The publication and exhibition were put together by curator Frits Gierstberg and guest curator Jenny Smets in collaboration with Ad van Denderen.

A Dutch (Onderweg) and an English edition (En Route).

The publication Onderweg is the seventh part in a series that the Nederlands Fotomuseum has been publishing together with Lecturis since 2019.

En route shows the development of Ad van Denderen as a documentary photographer from the 1960s to the present, in relation to still current social themes. In his career he has worked consistently and attentively on major and current social issues such as apartheid, migration and geopolitical conflict. He did this in a recognizable handwriting, initially narrative and later more conceptual. Typical of Ad van Denderen’s work is the intensity with which he empathizes with others in difficult situations. He always immerses himself in his subject for a long time and focuses his camera on the stories behind the daily news in the Netherlands and far beyond. His project Go No Go was acquired by the Nederlands Fotomuseum in the past and the inclusion of his archive in the museum’s collection is in the offing.

With a foreword by director Birgit Donker; an essay by journalist/ filmmaker Bianca Stigter about his work; a contribution from photo editor/curator Jenny Smets about his working method, based on their shared experiences at Vrij Nederland; an interpretation by curator Frits Gierstberg of Ad van Denderen’s oeuvre in an international context; and stories from the photographer himself about encounters he had during his many travels.

size 230 x 290 mm

volume 314 pagina’s Hardcover

NUR 653

ISBN NL 9789462264892

ISBN ENG 9789462264977

€ 45,00

Ad van Denderen (Zeist, 1943) is known for his project Go No Go, which he started in the 1980s and spent 15 years trying to portray European migration history. He recorded the attempts of illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and immigrants in search of a better life in Europe.

Photography: Ad van Denderen

design Kummer en Herrman release this fall

How shall we greet the sun

Photography and text: Thana Faroq

This project explores the personal stories and complex emotional landscape of the lives of a small group of young female refugees living in the Netherlands. The work reflects on life’s journeys and attempts to project forward into both the real and metaphorical future. Many of these women, including Thana, are at stages of life where they are challenged to build an identity within their new cultural context and power geography. All this with the memory and the nostalgic representation of their past. Thana creates a photographic investigation of a generation of female refugees in the Netherlands, how their identities are constructed and deconstructed from their current country and the country they left behind. This group is in a kind of archaeological recovery program, where they try to build and construct a new life over the ruins of past loss. Everything in their lives is under construction.

Her first successful book was I don’t recognize me in the shadows (Lecturis 2020). In addition to her awards, Thana received the inaugural Open Society Foundation Fellowship Grant 2018 and the Arab Documentary Fund 2019, supported by the Prince Claus Fund and the Magnum Foundation. In 2020, she was selected as “Ones to watch” by the British Journal of photography. Thana won the Foto_Win photo book prize 2021.

Thana received her BA in Government and International Relations from Clark University and MA Photography and Society from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.

English

size 170 x 220 mm

volume 168 pagina’s hardcover

Design Syb Release in October

NUR 653

ISBN 9789462264861

€ 28,00

Thana Faroq

is a Yemeni photographer, writer and multimedia artist based in the Netherlands. She works with photography, text, sound and the physicality of the image itself as a way to respond to the changes that have shaped and defined her life and sense of belonging both in Yemen and in the Netherlands.

Thana’s positioning as a photographer is determined by her reflections on her subject, focusing on the experiences of other people with whom she becomes familiar. She is also increasingly looking for her own story within this framework. Her work is a reflection of her life and addresses themes such as memory, migration and intergenerational trauma. Thana has a unique approach to working with her subjects as she returns to them regularly to continue sharing their journey. Many of these migrants, stateless people were at Thana during their transition period.

Chile The Photo Archive 1973/74

Photojournalist Chas Gerretsen takes us to Chile under President Salvador Allende. The book documents what happened on the streets of Santiago from January 1973 to September 1974 such as women’s demonstrations, miners’ strikes, student riots and hours of queuing for the basic necessities. Chas photographed daily life in the run-up to the coup on September 11, 1973 and the immediate aftermath: bodies on the streets, funerals, concentration camps – life in a dictatorship. Many of the images have never been published before until Gerretsen started posting them on social media in 2020. The result was a great demand from the Chilean people to see more of the images that Chas had created in their country and a plea for a book that would provide a permanent reminder of President Allende’s last year in office, of the coup and the resulting dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. The photo of Pinochet with the dark glasses was taken seven days after the coup. The photo became an icon for the left, portraying the ultimate dictator and was used in protest marches against oppressive governments around the world.

Gerretsen made a book of these tumultuous years, as a visual reminder for future generations and those who lived through this difficult time.

Chas Gerretsen (Groningen, 1943)

He left the Netherlands after his 16th birthday and traveled the world before going to Southeast Asia in 1967.

Chas photographed the conflict in Vietnam and Cambodia for three years and then continued to report on events in Southeast Asia.

In January 1973, Chas arrived in Santiago, Chile. Gerretsen won the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for his photos from Chile.

In 1975, Chas went to Hollywood where he was chosen as special photographer for Francis Ford Coppola’s film Apocalypse Now.

publications:

Chas Gerretsen in the leading role (Lecturis 2021)

Apocalypse Now: The Lost Photo Archive (Prestel Verlag 2021) The wonderful and strange life of Chas Gerretsen (Boom 2021, Dutch)

Chile, 82 photos (Gamma, Spécial Reporter Objectif 1973) size 240

NUR 653

ISBN 9789462264847

€ 45,00

Photography and text: Chas Gerretsen

x 314 mm volume 292 pagina’s Hardcover

design Syb release in October

Polaroids and Portraits

Pieter’s New Yorkers

Photography: Pieter Vandermeer

The Rotterdam photographer Pieter Vandermeer portrayed a variety of New Yorkers in an inimitable way. He did this for years in succession with the Polaroid Land 195 camera, on the streets of New York. He also recorded New Yorker celebrities during many years of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).

The negatives of Pieter’s unique photo material from New York have been digitally polished and bound into a sleek design by designer duo Rick Vermeulen and Marjolijn Verbist. Hripsimé Visser, Wim de Jong, Gerwin Tamsma and Gabriëlle Kok provided the text.

The photos reflect Pieter’s extremely personal approach to the portrait phenomenon. This book is for all lovers of portrait art and New York City: Polaroids and Portraits, Pieter’s New Yorkers.

Pieter Vandermeer (Grou,1940) Started taking photographs alongside his job at the local ironworks.

During military service (1959) he worked, among other things, as a photographer.

After this period he started working at Foto Kral, among others, as a reportage and wedding photographer and in 1971 at the art academy in Rotterdam where he managed the photography workshop. In the 1980s he became a self-employed photographer and traveled a lot to New York where he took street photos. He photographs many acquaintances at Poetry International and the Rotterdam film festival.

He taught at St. Joost (between 1986 and 1990) and is still active as a photographer and mentoring young people who he inspires for the profession.

Dutch and English

size 200 x 260 mm volume 158 pagina’s softcover

design Via Vermeulen | Rick Vermeulen & Marjolijn Verbist released

NUR 653

ISBN 9789462264786

€ 37,50

Venus Veldhoen

Photography: Venus Veldhoen

Text: Naomi Heidinga en Leo Divendal

Venus Veldhoen will publish a monograph in September, in which she shows a selection of approximately 120 portraits that she has made over the past 30 years. The book was designed by Inedition, Eva van der Schans. The foreword was written by Leo Divendal and there is an interview with the photographer by Naomi Heidinga. The book aims to place the portraits in a new context by ignoring time and place and focusing on the mutual interaction between the portrayed. This creates a rhythmic series of images that emphasizes the different cultures, contrasts between excess and scarcity, survival and beauty, explosions of color and black and white, and the power of vulnerability. In all her projects and portraits, Venus Veldhoen is looking for individuals whose search for the individuality of their existence is clearly evident. A recurring element in her work are the photos she took of her father. Her origins as the daughter of a Dutch father and a Vietnamese-Somali mother are also clearly reflected in her photography, in which she explores the interaction between different cultures and identities. The book Venus Veldhoen offers a unique look at 30 years of photography by this Amsterdam photographer and shows her search for the essence of human identity in a diverse world.

English

size 235 x 275 mm

volume 192 pagina’s Hardcover

design Inedition (Eva van der Schans) release in september

NUR 653

ISBN 9789462264830

€ 35,00

Venus Veldhoen (1968) is a Dutch photographer and art historian, born in Amsterdam. Her origins, with a Dutch father (artist Aat Veldhoen) and a Vietnamese-Somali mother, have a prominent influence on her work. She trained in photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and also studied art history at the University of Amsterdam, where her master’s thesis was devoted to Claude Cahun, a female surrealist photographer. Veldhoen has photographed and exhibited internationally, and her clients range from the municipality of Amsterdam to UNICEF, as well as various magazines. Her work is included in the collections of the Amsterdam Museum and the Jewish Historical Museum, among others.

Portrait of Aat Veldhoen with his model Mechteld.

Text:

SYNC is a photo book that calls for reflection in a time when technological progress seems to be accelerating. Participating and going along in this apparently feasible world seems to have become more important than coming to your senses.

In a highly modern society that largely takes place online, Maria Dabrowski has focused her photography on finding a new balance. The photos outline a search; back to a more natural rhythm from which we have become so far removed, with attention to the details and the everyday.

The analogue photo series has a layered interaction with the graphic design developed in collaboration with Studio Another Day. The whole is supported by a critical and questioning text by Joris van Merwijk, who places man’s subjective experience of time above the hurried, objective time of the West.

All books are numbered and signed.

Maria Dabrowski (Zwolle, 1988) is a Dutch artist of Polish descent. Her work has its origins in documentary photography. With an analogue camera in her pocket, she is often intuitively touched by her subject, after which she delves into the content. The long-term projects, which demonstrate a social commitment, are often presented in photo installations and in book form. With ‘SYNC’ (2017-2021), Maria captured with her photos the search for a more natural rhythm that we have become so far away from in these times, with attention to details and the everyday.

Maria studied at the University of the Arts in Utrecht (20062010) and the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels (2014-2015). She has lived and worked in Nijmegen since 2016.

Dutch and English

size 210 x 280 mm

volume 184 pagina’s softcover Zwitsers

design Studio Another Day released

NUR 653

ISBN 9789462264779

€ 65,00

Photography: Maria Dabrowski

Joris van Merwijk

Noctambule

Text: Erik Vroons

Bart Koetsier wandered through Europe for a decade, driven by a dark romantic longing for the big city ‘after hours’. Attracted by the seamy side of a smooth culture, he got lost in the anarchic night-time street life meanwhile photographed the grimy, unpolished and unbridled scenes that unfolded before his eyes. Koetsier watched and documented it all without wanting to be visible himself. Free from judgement, he recorded how the bourgeoisie transforms into a more animal form of itself, how the buzz of nightlife mixes with the perfume of the streets and with those for whom all this is a ‘fait accompli’.

Noctambule is a compression of an elongated experience, of getting lost in the night; a blurry period in which Koetsier deliberately surrendered himself to anonymity for ten years, to situations over which no one really seemed to have control. In the intended book, the viewer is drawn into the obscure allure of the bohemian ‘wonderland’ that emerges only between dusk and dawn.

Bart Koetsier (1975) is a Dutch portrait and documentary photographer based in Paris.

People are central to Koetsier’s photos: both in his portraits and in his documentaries images. However, he also looks for places and objects to tell his story. In all images he creates a strong cinematic atmosphere. The use of light is decisive; events become scenes, people become characters and the locations become their settings.

size 200 x 240 mm

Volume 192 pagina’s Hardcover

NUR 653

ISBN 9789462264908

€ 45,00

Photography: Bart Koetsier

design Erik Vroons en Lecturis release in september

The Dream Vehicle

Photography and text: WitkowskaVerbunt

An introspective journey into the mystery of time and love.

In The Dream Vehicle, the photographer duo WitkowskaVerbunt buys a car and sets off on a road trip through the Benelux. They begin a photographic search for a deeper understanding of the adult male-female relationship and along the way become the actual object of their research.

The road trip, as a metaphor for life’s journey, shows the protagonists in their poetic, introspective quest for time and love. Where daily events are stylized into visual reflections on life’s relationships and where they translate their feelings into dreamy stories.

Looking at the classic road trip movies, in which ordinary people become heroes in their own universe, the duo questions the ideal form of being in a time that passes with The Dream Vehicle. The book, a 312-page photo novel, is an artistic and adventurous collection of photography, poetry and prose from four years of research during which seven journeys were made. The book is part of a multidisciplinary whole in which the reader is encouraged to become acquainted with film and music that play an important role in the story.

Anna Witkowska (1976) is a multidisciplinary artist and photographer. Originally graduated as a ceramic designer from the Art Academy in Wroclaw, Poland (2001), she eventually found her visual language as an artist in autonomous photography and film and graduated from the Photo Academy in Amsterdam in 2016.

Rob Verbunt (1970) photographer and copywriter, originally focused on a career as an advertising artist. In addition to careers in writing and music, he started training at the Rotterdam Photo Academy in 2010, where he graduated in 2012.

Anna and Rob have been working since 2019 together as the duo WitkowskaVerbunt. With The Dream Vehicle they address universal themes such as love, the passage of time and the search for happiness.

Dutch and English

size 210 x 270 mm

volume 312 pagina’s hardcover

NUR 653

ISBN 9789462264793

€ 48,00

European Cowboy

Photography and text: Bjorn Staps

Cowboys are inextricably linked to the mythical American West that we know from history books, but even more so from the countless films, television series, (comic) books and commercials full of gunslingers. There, ‘the Cowboy’ is the symbol of freedom, courage and masculinity. However, European Cowboy by photographer Bjorn Staps shows a closeknit community of young rodeo cowboys in Western Europe. These young men practice the most dangerous part of classic (American) rodeo: ‘bull riding’. In the summer months, these cowboys travel through Belgium, France and Italy to participate in local rodeos in small villages or on ranches hidden in the countryside. During these competitions, the men risk their lives again and again by trying to stay on a wildly bucking bull for 8 seconds. Each of them with their own dreams and ambitions. Successes are celebrated, but pain and disappointments are also shared.

Over the past 4 years, Dutch photographer Bjorn Staps has depicted the unknown world of European rodeo cowboys. In European Cowboy, Staps combines visual elements of the well-known mythical cowboy with the sometimes harsh reality full of individual dreams, friendship and vulnerabilities of the real cowboys in Europe.

English and French

Bjorn Staps (1975) was born and raised in the Netherlands and works on both personal projects and commercial assignments. The main characters in his work do not necessarily conform to society’s standards, but enjoy lifelike moments while searching for a personal form of identity, freedom and heroism. The working class hero is a common thread in this: for him it is a character with recognition, but also endless potential. Staps received his B.A. Photography at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague in 2000, where he is now also a lecturer at the Photography Department. His work has been exhibited at national and international exhibitions and is included in various private and public art collections. size

NUR 653

ISBN 9789462264816

€ 50,00

Searching for the Soul of Service Stations

This book highlights various aspects of gas stations through a collection of photos and paintings from a private collection, collected over the years. The past, present and future are discussed. Do gas stations actually have a future? The images show a cocktail of nostalgia, history, aesthetics, romance, emotion, realism, social aspects and a pinch of humor. The book is intended as an attempt to uncover the soul of the gas station, transforming a rather boring everyday theme into a lively, creative, sometimes almost sexy subject.

The book consists of 96 pages with 70 images by 40 different artists from home and abroad (mainly photographers but also some painters) with work by, among others, Jacques Meijer, Jorgen Polman, Nico van der Stam, Jaap Vliegenthart, Matt Dunlap, Léonard Gianadda, Chris Niedenthal.

Paul Schäublin Vevey, Switzerland (1949). Studied in Lausanne (EPFL), graduated as a structural engineer. Schäublin has worked most of his life as a project manager for a major oil company. He now lives in Amsterdam, where he is co-director of Gallery WM, an art gallery dedicated to photography.

Sebastian Rypson (Warschau, 1978) is a cultural anthropologist by training and, among other things, a curator of contemporary art by profession. Since 2010, Rypson has been chief curator at Gallery WM; an Amsterdam-based gallery that focuses on contemporary photography.

Dutch and English

design Paul Schäublin released

NUR 653

ISBN 9789462264748

€ 35,00

Composition: Paul Schäublin en Sebastian Rypson

size 230 x 230 mm volume 96 pagina’s hardcover

Refugium

The title Refugium refers to a term biologists use for the safe haven that animals seek when their own habitat is no longer available. The coastal landscape offers this protection. Also for people who, perhaps more than ever, occasionally need recreation and rest.

Esther Hessing: documentary photographer

Photography: Esther Hessing

Drawings and paintings: Annemieke Fierinck

This project started from the love for the sea, the beach and the dunes. But concern about the state of nature also played a role. What is the status of our dune area? It will be in the future still be a nice place? It remains a safe habitat for flora and fauna if the soil in this vulnerable area becomes salinized and the nitrogen deposition continues to increase, causing species to become increasingly submerged get under pressure? The urge for economic gain will soon be greater than nature can handle? And perhaps most importantly, protect Are our dunes sufficient to protect us against rising water?

The book that follows is an atmospheric impression, very quiet is also educational. As a reader, you walk along with the makers through the dune landscape. One time you will be surprised with a wonderful photo, the next time with information about special animals or plants. With beautiful transitions from the image on one page to that on the next, the pages are strung together into a story. Every now and then there is an outing in the form of a fold-out page dedicated to a specific topic, such as beach brethren herders, grazers, mosses or water extraction. These are additions that complete the story of the dune area. The paintings and drawings in the book create an almost magical atmosphere. Refugium is more than an ‘ordinary’ nature book; it is above all a beautiful art project.

Dutch and English

NUR 653

ISBN 9789090368290

€ 50,00

As a documentary photographer, she prefers to observe the world around her from a distance. By taking a step back, she is no longer part of the image as a photographer. With this broad view she keeps an overview and shows without giving direction. In the absence of explanation,  she creates an atmosphere that is also meaningful indicates the invisible. With her distant gaze she leaves everything open, instead of determining for the viewer where the focus should be. In this way, the viewer is stimulated to study the image more closely in order to subsequently understand it what matters.

Annemieke Fierinck: Her drawings and paintings are almost always about natural finds, trees and birds. While working, she looks through a magnifying glass, so to speak, at every spot, fray and color transition. The aim is to find the balance between realism and impression.

Text: Marijke A. Deege

The bombs exploded in the center of the old fortified city of Gorinchem. It was Saturday, November 4, 1944, and less than three kilometers from that violence, a girl was born: Marijke Adriana Deege. The Netherlands still groaned under the German occupation. The hunger winter was just around the corner.

Seventy-seven years later, she opened the door to her fascinating life story with an impressive writing. Her flexible pen and fresh writing style, her strong memory and creativity tell stories of special people and encounters. Now zoomed in on her worldview and then on her immediate environment, this has become a book full of inspiring, informative, moving, serious and humorous stories interspersed with photos from her life and her sculpture. On the way to realizing her dream, she was never discouraged by people who did not support her art, her gift. She stayed close to herself and made sacrifices to shape what she saw before her in terra cotta, bronze, wood or stone.

In the studio of the famous sculptor Marcus Ravenswaaij she learned to model and sculpt in detail. Soulmates who inspired each other and others. They lived as a unique artist couple for thirty-three years. Her great love died on Holy Saturday 2003.

Marijke A. Deege (Gorinchem, 1944)

During secondary school and for a few years afterwards, he follows the journeyman/master training process in modeling and sculpting with Marcus Ravenswaaij, a well-known Dutch sculptor. Independent, free artist since 1970.

Married Marcus in 1971.

Works in natural stone, wood, bronze, terra cotta, also some polyester statues and various mosaics.

Carried out many assignments for parks and squares, schools, utility buildings, municipalities and companies. Much work in private collections.

Exhibitions throughout the Netherlands, including the then POC in Eindhoven; the Floriade in Rijnsburg; the ADAF in Amsterdam. The Center international d’Arts in Paris; In Germany near Stutgart; in Belgium in the castle garden of Count d’Udekem d’Acoz; in Luxembourg; and the Florence Biennale.

International Funeral Award in 2004

Three years of Writers’ Academy Author of: Marcus Ravenswaaij, sculptor by nature, a biography; Chavah, Mother of All Life, a novella; Rasha, a novel.

size 170 x 240 mm volume 448 pagina’s hardcover

design Jannie de Groot release in October

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