Peter Martens (1937-1992), a legendary Dutch street photographer, left behind one of the most fearless photographic oeuvres of the last century.
Until shortly before his death he worked on the composition of two books featuring the best of his complete works: Few Loving Voices and American Testimony.
The dummies he assembled and the 400 prints he selected layered in the archive of the Nederlands Fotomuseum for twenty years.
In collaboration with the museum and the Peter Martens Foundation, this year both titles will be published by post editions.
On the occasion of the publications, work from Peter Martens will be exhibited by:
Dubbelde Palmboom, Rotterdam
Rotterdam by Peter Martens May 18-June 24
CBK|Buro Rotterdam/Kunst & Complex
Ooh God May 18-June 10
Gallery Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam
Children by Peter Martens May 20-June 17
Gallery Weesperzijde, Amsterdam
People by Martens May 20-June 10
Schielandshuis, Rotterdam
Portraits of Rotterdam artists from the sixties
Breda Photo
Sept 13-Oct 21
Eversteijn by Carel van Hees won the Nico Scheepmaker Cup 2011, the trade jury prize for best sports book of the year.
The book is also nominated for the Dutch Doc Award 2012, the most important Dutch prize for documentary photography.
Earlier, readers chose Eversteijn as Best Rotterdam Book 2011.
nominees Best Sports Book 2011
Nico Scheepmaker Cup
nominees Dutch Doc Award
Best Rotterdam Book 2011
Club Donny # 8 will be launched April 5 during the opening of the exhibition Secret Gardens in TENT Rotterdam.
The programme on April 5 starts at 5.30pm at the CBK with the opening of the exhibition De Geheime Tuin by Ove Lucas and will be continued at 8pm with opening of Secret Gardens in TENT by Mariette Dölle and Willie Stehouwer, curator of the exhibition.
CBK - De Geheime Tuin
TENT - Secret Gardens
This issue of Club Donny has been made possible with the support of TENT and flower shop 's Zomers.
new releases at ARCOmadrid
Rob Hamelijnck and Nienke Terpsma present the latest issue of their magazine Fucking Good Art. In FGA#29 Italian Conversations. Art in the age of Berlusconi, FuckingGoodArt investigates Italy's complex art territory, its spaces, people, models for culture in the current political and economic crisis.
BAK introduces a new series Critical Readers in Artists' Practice. The first episode is dedicated to the works of Rabih Mroué, actor, director, playwright and artist based in Beirut.
Both launches will take place at ARCOmadrid, International Contemporary Art Fair where Netherlands is guest country.
Sunday Feb 19, 13-16h, Madrid, Spain
ARCOmadrid
In this publication the initiators of the residency programm
Basel-Rotterdam
Rotterdam-Basel
reflect critically on the last ten years of activity and present an overview of the participating artists.
The result is an elegant and comprehensive document composing three essays and 23 folded posters. The publication also highlights the continued importance of providing cultural exchange programs.
just released
Auschwitz-Oświęcim, Oświęcim-Auschwitz by Hans Citroen and Barbara Starzyńska.
A photographic investigation on wartime Auschwitz and today's Oświęcim.
December 1st Sonja Barend received the first copy, during the book lauch at the NIOD.
YU[E]P is a startling research report and photo book on the expectations of a group of young women of non-Western origin, living on the South Bank of Rotterdam. These well-educated women are the vanguard of an emerging middle class.
In the publication, research journalists Els Desmet and Annemarie Sour let these Young Urban [Ethnic] Professional speak for themselves. The personal experiences of the ambitious young women offer leads for development and renewal of the urban environment, not only in Rotterdam.
At the festive book presentation, Alderman Hamit Karakus will give out the first copies after Radboud Engbersen has interviewed several stakeholders.
Thursday, September 22, 5.30-7.30 pm
Nederlands Fotomuseum
www.yuep.nl
What determines our place in history? If it is the past, there we also find the material support with which we reconstitute our historical place. Our relation to history remains retrospective, but also anticipatory.
Events begin with a break from history. But they soon are recaptured by it and fetishized as historical triumphs or failures. Still something remains of past events that, although conditioned by history, is irreducible to it: a surplus that finds way to our time, something out of time that forces us to actively anticipate a renewing in past events.
With contributions by:
- Dariush Moaven Doust / Machinic Life
- Alireza Rasoulinejad & Saleh Najafi / Minor/Major [conversation]
- Norman Klein / Imaginary Future and the Archive [interview]
- Gerald Raunig & Roberto Nigro / Molecular Revolution and Event
- Saleh Najafi / Hope Against Hope
- Sven Augustijnen / Coincidences of History: Reflections on E'mile Meurice's 'Sketch for a psychologial study of Leopold II'
- Jalil Ziapour, Houshang Irani, Gholam Hossein Gharib / Excerpt from Khoroos Jangi magazine, 1949-50
- Performance in Iran [conversation] with Neda Razavipour, Jinoos Taghizadeh, Shahab Fotouhi, Bavand Behpour, Amir Mobed and Mahmoud Bakhshi
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