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DUTCH DARE: CONTEMPORARY DUTCH PHOTOGRAPHY
Frits Gierstberg
NAi Publishers, 2006
Softcover
144 pages
Fully illustrated, colour and b+w.
ISBN: 9056625489
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This book is being published to accompany the exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney in the context of 'Dutch Dare', the cultural programme marking 400 years of relations between the Netherlands and Australia. The exhibition is an initiative of the Mondriaan Foundation.
Dutch Dare demonstrates that the Netherlands is no longer the country of tulips, cheese and clogs in a fresh survey of contemporary Dutch photography. Since the assassinations of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh, the foreigner's image of the Netherlands has also completely changed.
The photographs that the compiler Frits Gierstberg has selected for the book offer a new perspective on contemporary Dutch society. For example Gerco de Ruijter photographs the Netherlands by hanging his camera on a kite, resulting in strange, abstract landscapes. Marnix Goosens also gives a distinctive twist to the Dutch landscape, entangling our gaze in thickets or blocking it with a tree trunk rather than presenting us with panoramas of the flat countryside and Roy Villevoye investigates the colonial past of the using photos, films and installations that portray the people of the former Dutch colony of New Guinea. The book also includes work by Hans van der Meer, Elspeth Diederix, Gertjan Kocken, Julika Rudelius, Jaap Scheren, Anouk Kruithof, Martine Stig, Viviane Sassen, Marike Schuurman and Useful Photography.
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