Dutch Photo Publications 19181980

(Hardback)

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This extensive overview is an homage to all the photographers, artists, writers, designers, printers, paper importers and publishers, as well as the museums, associations, and commercial clients and their organizations that shaped Dutch photo publications between 1912 and 1980. Across more than 500 pages, through a series of texts and more than 1,000 reproductions, the work and vision of Hendrikus Theodorus Wijdeveld, Piet Zwart, Jan Kamman, Paul Schuitema, Dick Elffers, Nico de Haas, Emmy Andriesse, Cas Oorthuys, Martien Coppens, Ed van der Elsken, Jurriaan Schrofer, Dirk Meijer and Joop Swart-among dozens of others-is explored in detail. Highlighting the most important individual contributions they made to their trade and craft, the book also demonstrates their collaborative efforts for excellence. The publications documented here rank among the most creative and influential in the global fields of photography and the graphic arts.

The photograph is the new eye of our age: it is sober, unsentimental and neutral; it draws with speed and precision; it is objective and does not lie... - Paul Schuitem

Author Bio

Manfred Heiting is a designer and editor of photo publications and a collector of photobooks focusing on the period between 1839 and 1990. He has designed and edited Photography 1922-1982, 50 Years Modern Color Photography. 1936-1986 and Between Science and Art. 50 Years German Photographic Society, 1951-2001. Steidl has published his extensive surveys of German, Soviet, Japanese and Czech photobooks, as well as Dr. Paul Wolff & Alfred Tritschler. The Printed Images 1906-2019 (2021) and Shigeru Onishi's A Metamathematical Proposition (2021).