Van Zoetendaal

14/05/2017

From 20 May to 3 September the Nederlands Fotomuseum will present a new exhibition entitled Spring Tide | Van Zoetendaal & The Collection. Exercising his eye for the beauties of photography, guest curator Willem van Zoetendaal will introduce us to over 250 photographs from the Collection in their original form: that is, directly printed from the negatives. Some of the photographs in the exhibition are known in cropped versions but are now being shown for the first time in their entirety. Van Zoetendaal demonstrates that a great deal of information about the photographer’s vision and approach can lie precisely those apparently insignificant and casual details that cropping tends to eliminate.
Van Zoetendaal will reveal the continuing relevance of the photographs in the museum collection by complementing them with contemporary photographs. The combination produces unexpected links and paralells between past and present. For example, the fact that photographers – then as now – were attracted by motifs like solitary trees, moonlight or refelections in water.
Participating photographers: Céline van B***n, Ruth van Beek,
Katharina Eleonore Behrend, Paul Citroen, Cobie Douma, Bernard F. Eilers, Wally Elenbaas, Ed van der Elsken, Kees Hana, Esther Kroon, Holger Niehaus, Arjan de Nooy, Cas Oorthuys, Frits R. Rotgans, Diana Scherer, Paul Schuitema, Otto Snoek, Paul Steenhuizen, Harold Strak, Richard Tepe, Piet Zwart.

Spring Tide | The Book

This publication was compiled to accompany the exhibition Spring Tide at the
Nederlands Fotomuseum and also features a number of other photographs. Sometimes new relationships have been exposed between the selected photographs; a book with facing pages has by definition different qualities from a space with four walls and a door. Eye rhyme, montage, illusion – it is all part of the celebration of photography. And photography has to be celebrated and coaxed out of its acid-free environment and brought out into the light again – where it was originally created.

05/01/2017

Cracks in the City

16/03/2016

NEW: Wij zijn 17 & Les Copains

24/11/2015

new

21/05/2015

http://www.photography-now.com/newsimages/vanzoetendaal33.html

16/12/2014

List of exceptional books on ‘photography’ 2014
(exceptional also in edting and design!)

Tiergarten, Johannes Schwartz (Roma Publishing)

Katy Grannan; The Ninety Nine and the Nine (Fraenkel Gallery)

Christopher Williams (Walther König)

Manifeste, Museum Folkwang Essen (Steidl)

Whispers: Ulay on Ulay (Valiz Publishing)

Illustrated People, Thomas Mailander (RVB & AMC)

Walker Evans, The Magazine Work (Steidl)

15/12/2014

December 21 the new book by Johan van der Keuken – Mise au jour – will be launched at Huis Marseille Museum voor Fotografie in Amsterdam. The book edited and designed by Willem van Zoetendaal consists of 45 photographs made by Johan van der Keuken (1938-2001) during the period 1956-1982 with his Leica M3 camera. Mainly unknown photographs are selected from France, Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, Greece and USA. Mise au jour means to bring to light, to dig up or to update.

Mise au jour is the third publication about the Johan van der Keuken Archives by Van Zoetendaal since Quatorze Juillet 2010 and Paris mortel retouché 2013 which was rewarded with the Les Rencontres d'Arles Photographie Historical Book Award 2014.The book has been printed in tri-tone by Trifolio S.R.L. on Mohawk and Takeo papers in a limited edition of 750 copies. ISBN 978-90-72532-27-5.

112 pages, paperback with foldings, € 55,-

03/12/2014

Witruimte rond de foto

26/10/2014

FRIET, photo magazine for children

May 26, 2014 sees the first issue of the magazine FRIET. The main theme of this publication is archaeology for children aged 9 and upwards in Amsterdam and the surrounding areas.
Issue number 1, entitled FRIET speciaal, features archaeological discoveries of synthetic materials that were dug up during the construction of the Noord/Zuidlijn (North/South metro line). The magazine contains some 40 objects and fragments, accompanied by their descriptions and a map of Amsterdam showing the sites of the excavations.
The archaeological study of the Noord/Zuidlijn was carried out in the 10-year period 2003-2012 by the Bureau Monumenten & Archaeology (Monuments & Archaeology Office) under the supervision of city archaeologist Jerzy Gawronski, and was commissioned by the Dienst Metro, Amsterdam. During that period, almost 700,000 items of interest were found, almost 30,000 of which have been photographed.
The most important excavation sites of the Noord/Zuidlijn, which runs straight through the historical centre of Amsterdam, were the Damrak and the Rokin. The layers of ground at the bottom of the sites, some 25 metres deep, dated from the last Ice Age, which ended 10,000 years ago.
Above this layer was the river bed of the River Amstel, which used to flow through here. It was some 12 metres deep and full of archaeological remains (in those days, people would often throw their waste into the water, or objects fell into the river by accident, sinking deep into the mud).
The publication is a 48-page photo magazine based on an idea and design of Strak/Van Zoetendaal (photographer Harold Strak and graphic designer Willem van Zoetendaal). Each synthetic object is numbered separately and in the final section of the magazine you will find a catalogue listing the find code, a description, the dimensions and a date in Dutch.
Although it is primarily a photo magazine, it can also be used as an educational tool to introduce children to the wonderful world of history and archaeology in a playful manner (helping them to recognise broken objects, lost objects, as well as the relations between objects).
In Dutch language only!

26/10/2014

Willink’s Clouds Above The Rijksmuseum

During his lifetime, the painter Carel Willink (1900-1983), who described himself as an ‘imaginary realist’, developed an idiosyncratic methodology for elaborating his ideas. When making his preparatory sketches he collected visual material, postcards, photos from newspapers and periodicals such as National Geographic, as inspiration, and when necessary he used a camera to capture his subjects photographically.
There are various examples of photos that he incorporated into his paintings. Besides portraits and nudes, Willink photographed statues and monuments that he encountered on his travels, which included Florence, Berlin, Paris and the park of Versailles. Back at home in Amsterdam he photographed streets, buildings, cloudy skies and animals at Artis zoo, most famously the sleeping zebra, the anteater and the marabou. He also photographed his cats, which he doted on. His use of photography was practical and functional. For him it was not about the photography itself; it was meant to serve as a preparatory study. If necessary he cropped, tilted and mirrored his photos.
In the archive of negatives there are many cloudy skies captured by Willink, still in the original paper folders: restless skies, turbulent skies and dramatic skies that he sought for backdrops to his paintings. He scanned the heavens through his studio windows and all the other windows of the apartment, as well as from the rear of his home and from the roof. He had no fear of heights, not even shying from clambering into the gutter. He purposefully photographed the city’s horizon, paying no attention to the bottom of the image, because he was only concerned with the cloudscape.
He called them ‘shifting skies’. Willink printed the photos himself on barite paper and framed what he needed. This usually meant that part of the bottom of the photos was cropped. In his quest for an oppressive atmosphere, he printed the photos in a heavy, dark way, rich in contrast: the firmament had to be ominous and menacing.

26/10/2014

De openingsspeech voor de tentoonstelling N**e Animal Cigar van Paul Kooiker geschreven door Willem van Zoetendaal Als je met Paul Kooiker op reis gaat naar een ver land bijvoorbeeld Korea dan weet hij tijdens de heenreis in het vliegtuig er al van alles over te vertellen. Hij heeft zich flink ingel…

24/09/2014

New York Art Book Fair 2014

During his lifetime, the painter Carel Willink (1900-1983), who described himself as an ‘imaginary realist’, developed an idiosyncratic methodology for elaborating his ideas. When making his preparatory sketches he collected visual material, postcards, photos from newspapers and periodicals such as…