Hans Eijkelboom Livres

Sélection de milliers de photographies de personnes prises dans la rue du danois Hans Eijkelboom.

"An enormous and completely fascinating collection of 'anti-sartorial' photographs of street life by the Dutch conceptual artist/street photographer. From Amsterdam to New York and Paris to Shanghai, these photographs, taken over a period of more than twenty years, provide a cumulative portrait of the people of the twenty-first century. Over the course of the last two decades, the Dutch photographer worked methodically on his monumental Photo Notes project. First he would select a busy pedestrian area, his favourite spots were often near shopping centres, where he would stay for 30 minutes up to a few hours. He then spent time observing passers-by before recognizing a common type, normally based on a garment, sometimes a behaviour: people in band T-shirts, fur caps or beige trench coats; young couples walking arm-in-arm; women in suit dresses; men with gelled hair or pushing shopping trolleys. He snapped them with a camera hung around his neck, attached to a trigger in his pocket. Back in the studio, the images were laid into grids called Photo Notes. Their simplicity of form and presentation belies their complex anthropological, social and artistic commentary"--Publisher's description

Summary: Photographer Hans Eijkelboom is fascinated by the clash between the idealistic constructs of modernism and the harsh, sometimes dilapidated reality of his own living environment in the Bijlmer, the city district of Amsterdam-Southeast that was realized in the late 1970s. In 2008 the Art Foundation of Amsterdam's Academic Medical Center (AMC) commissioned him to portray the diversity of the Bijlmer | the AMC's immediate catchment area. The assignment resulted in a 'work in progress': Eijkelboom took 12 photos every month over a period of one and a half years, which resulted in a steadily expanding series of images of the colourful world outside being displayed on a temporary wall at the AMC hospital. Exhibition: Special collections department of the library of the University of Amsterdam (5.11.-11.12.2010).