The Spark of August Sander

31.07.2020
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Proud to be a participant of the exhibition ‘The Spark of August Sander‘ @033fotostad with 10 40×50 #tintype portraits from 30.07 till 20.09 The spark of German portrait and documentary photographer #augustsander (1876 – 1964) has been transferred to Dutch portrait photographers such as #koosbreukel , #eddyposthumadeboer , his daughter Tessa @posthumadeboer and @hansdekort , who show their work in this exhibition. August Sander is known as one of the most important German portrait photographers of the early twentieth century. He saw the task of photography to provide a truthful, objective representation of reality. August Sander firmly believed that someone is marked by the time in which he lives and that he could show this as a photographer. Remarkable is the balance he achieves in his photos between the person portrayed as a type and as an individual. The exhibition features photographs by other portrait photographers who share Sander's way of truthful, pure portraits. Photographers with whom the spark has jumped. We are very happy with additional work by leading photographers such as: #koosbreukel , @hansdekort, #eddypostumadeboer and Tessa @posthumadeboer #portraitphotography #portraitphotos #portretfotografie #portretfotograaf #portraitphotographer #amersfoort #033fotostad

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Hans de Kort & Karin Borghouts at Vincent van Gogh House Zundert

21.01.2020
Hans de Kort & Karin Borghouts

Hans de Kort (NL-1963) Photographs in the ‘wet plate collodion’ technique. This classic method where a unique image is made on glass or metal already existed in van Gogh’s childhood. De Kort has therefore visited the places from Vincent’s youth with a wooden bellows camera captured images of the headstone of his stillborn brother, the flower tree in the garden of the birthplace and sunflowers from the vegetable garden at the Protestant Church. In addition, he composed still lifes in his studio following van Gogh’s paintings of two worker’s shoes, a stuffed bat and the head of a skeleton with burning cigarette. Because Vincent himself had an aversion to the colorless photography, the short series titled ‘No Photos from Van Gogh’ has been released. For the occasion, he offers signed saltprints in a limited edition.

Karin Borghouts (BE-1959) was fascinated by Van Gogh after photographing a reproduction of a painting of him in the burnt house of her parents. This was the beginning of a long journey in the footsteps of van Gogh. Of course, he started in his birth place Zundert, where she not only captured the church and landscapes, but also made an extensive photo series of the house of Vincent Godmothers that is being demolished. Her Wanderings further brought her into the Borinage, Nuenen, Paris, Arles, Saint-Rémy-de Provence and Auvers-Sur-Oise. The images of these locations filled them with photographic interpretations of his still lifes and are bundled in the publication ‘Vincent was here’. This book, which is a great sequel to the previous publications of Emmy Andriesse (1953) and Paul Huf (1990), is a work of art in itself. During the exhibition, a special edition will be offered with a signed print of Borghouts.