Frits Gierstberg, Rik Suermondt - The Dutch Photobook - 2012

"The Dutch Photobook - A Thematic Selection from 1945 Onwards" -
organized by NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, is a FANTASTIC OVERVIEW of the "Dutch Photobook".

A MUST-HAVE BOOK FOR THE LIBRARY OF VERY AMBITIOUS PHOTOBOOK COLLECTOR.

This Dutch book features 124 photobooks, divided into six chapters:
"Landscape" ("The Dutch Landscape"), "Youth" ("Forever Young"), "Industry" ("Roads to Tomorrow"), "Travel" ("Wanderlust"), "City" ("The Magic of the City") and "Art" ("The Autonomous Photobook").

"The Dutch photobook is internationally recognized for its innovative and collaborative approach between photographers, printers, and designers.
For this volume, the first in-depth exploration of this legacy, photo-historians Frits Gierstberg and Rik Suermondt have chosen 124 of the most significant examples published from 1945 onwards. This selection offers insight into the larger thematic concerns-landscape, documentary, and conceptually driven photographic practices-that have animated Dutch photography, and by extension, the unique contributions of Dutch photographers and designers to the history of the photobook."
(cover text)

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Aperture, New York. 2012. First English edition, first printing.

Hardcover (as issued). 245 x 285 mm. 240 pages. 300 photos. Edited by Frits Gierstberg and Rik Suermondt. Text: Tamara Berghmans, Flip Bool, Patricia Börger, Martijn van den Broek, Karen Duking, Frits Gierstberg, Karin Kijgsman, Claudia Küssel, Peter van Leeuwen, Pim Milo, Mireille de Putter, Max van Rooy, Bart Sorgedrager, Rik Suermondt, Mirelle Thijsen, Anneke van Veen. Language: English.

Condition:
Inside new, mint, unread. Outside very fresh; light trace of use. Overall very fine condition.

Excellent book about (Dutch) photobooks - in great condition.
This publication coincides with the exhibition "Celebration of the Photobook" at the Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam" (10th of march to 20th of may 2012).

"The Dutch photobook is internationally celebrated for its particularly close collaboration between photographer, printer and designer. The current photobook publishing boom in the Netherlands stems from a tradition of excellence that precedes World War II, but the postwar years inaugurated a period of particularly close collaboration between photographers and designers, producing such unique photography books as Ed van der Elsken’s “Love on the Left Bank” (1956) and Koen Wessing’s “Chili, September 1973” (1973). Innovations such as the photo novel and the company photobook blossomed in the 1950s and 60s; later, other genres emerged to characterize the publishing landscape in Holland, including conceptual and documentary photobooks, books on youth culture, urbanism photobooks and landscape photobooks and travelogues. Examining each of these genres across six themed chapters, “The Dutch Photobook” features selections from more than 100 historical, contemporary and self-published photobook projects. It includes landmark publications such as “Hollandse taferelen” by Hans Aarsman (1989), “The Table of Power” by Jacqueline Hassink (1996), “Why Mister Why” by Geert van Kesteren (2006) and “Empty Bottles” by Wassink Lundgren (2007). Dutch photo historians Frits Gierstberg and Rik Suermondt contribute several essays on the history of the genre, the collaborative efforts between photographers and designers and their inspiration and influences, complementing the high-quality reproductions of photobooks throughout. Award-winning designer Joost Grootens contributes unique charts and diagrams that consolidate all of these elements, in a visually unique map of the Dutch photobook."
(from the publisher)