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 Roma Publications, 2008ISBN 978-90-77459-33-1 Dutch and English 14 x 20,5 cm / 2 x 48 p. / paperback €13,50 A short fiction set in the Cold War era, Plateau features two scientists stationed on the Arctic drift ice for a year. “Except for the stars there were no reference points here: no hills, no mainland, no vegetation — nothing that counterbalanced the uniform character of this frozen ocean landscape.” The question how the expedition members should relate to this landscape forms the heart of a discussion which seems to be driving them apart. Plateau was designed by Roger Willems and edited by Arnoud Holleman and Cathelijne Hoorn. Gwenneth Boelens contributed the images. |
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2003Dutch only 15,5 x 22,5 cm / 48 p. / paperback €12,50 De grote afwezige (The Grand Absence) is a collection of seven essays that Nickel wrote on the occasion of his graduation as a photographer. Most of the essays analyse the working of photography in a somewhat humourous fashion. The book opens with a letter to the dead inventors of photography. In other essays, various attempts are described to achieve perfectly objective photographs – attempts that are obviously bound to fail. The book also includes two essays of greater personal urgency. One is a polemic against a school of Dutch photographers who apply melodrama to their pictures in order to feign emotional intensity. The other is the title essay, an imaginary phone conversation between a photography graduate and his father. The son has put his pictures on display for the final exhibition, but his father cannot come. Can a verbal explanation of the photographs undo his father’s absence? Download a translation of this essay here. |
Fonds BKVB, 2010ISBN 978-90-76936-24-6 English only 22 x 28,5 cm / 148 p. + 32 p. / paperback with additional stitched-in reader €29,95 Sideways: Reflections on Changing Contexts in Art is the result of an intensive group process. For two and a half years, the authors met to discuss the question: how is an artist influenced by moving from one context to another – geographically, socially, politically? The book consists of six completely autonomous artist and author contributions: · Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi made large format drawings based on her childhood in Iran. · Sara Blokland compiled an essay with images and texts about her relation to her family and her heritage. · Bassam Chekhes wrote two personal anecdotes about the situations his photographs sprang from. · Katrin Korfmann blended hundreds of telelens pictures into enormous images where people flock together under a bird’s-eye view. · Tina Rahimy wrote a philosophical essay departing from a story by Garcia Marquez. · Nickel van Duijvenboden kept a journal during his travels in Iran, which centers around his perspective as an ‘outsider’. Sideways was part of the programme ‘Indendant for Cultural Diversity’ of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts. Hans Gremmen was the book designer. |