Photography: Hester Doove - Music Portraits 1989-2001
Photography: Hester Doove - Music Portraits 1989-2001
Photography: Hester Doove - Music Portraits 1989-2001
Between 1989 and 2001, Hester Doove photographed internationally renowned pop artists for
Muziekkrant OOR and other magazines. Often the circumstances were not too favourable: most
of the time there only were a few minutes for the photo sessions, backstage or in and around
hotels. But her love for music and the musicians she met were a major motivator and an
important creative source of inspiration. Music Portraits shows a selection of 60 pop artists from
this period including Seal, Barry White, Elvis Costello, Marianne Faithfull, Tori Amos, JJCale,
John Hiatt, Suzanne Vega, Joe Jackson, David Byrne, Lenny Kravitz, Susanna Hoffs, Lisa
Stansfield, Chris Isaak, Sonic Youth, Youssou N'Dour, Thom Yorke.
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'White Wall' presents street photography by Ole Christiansen. Unlike many such series of quick
snapshots, however, the Danish photographer's pictures are highly orchestrated and graphically
framed. All of them were taken at a specific location in the city, where a white wall is the theatrical
background against which passers-by perform their one-second acts as marionettes.
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Tolo Para employs everyday objects that correspond with allegorical objects in the cosmos in a
search for visual answers to the eternal riddle of existence. These objects illustrate the path that
the human species has travelled, from its origins to the present moment. Para's photographs are
juxtaposed with found images to create a visual dialogue between matter and different eras. The
book therefore poses questions about our nature, where we come from, and where we are going.
Such enigmatic ponderings are the driving force that moves our species forward in time, from the
dark path to the light of knowledge.
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Hayashi Tadahiko was born in 1918 as the first son to the owner of a photography shop in
Tokuyama, Yamaguchi prefecture. He continually took pictures, mainly for the garvure pages of
magazines, during and after the second world war. His portrait photographs, especially those of
novelists such as Dazai Osamu or Sakaguchi Ango, are renowned across Japan.
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Bertrand Cavalier investigates how political upheaval becomes visible in the urban landscape and
how this affects the lives of the people who live in it. He photographs places that have been
marked by armed conflicts in the past. For inhabitants, this is often no more than the backdrop
against which they live their lives. However, politics have a way of subliminally impacting on
people's habits and dictating behaviour. By photographing the townspeople in their own context,
Cavalier reveals their true connection with their environment.
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Belgian photographer Katherine Longly met Blieke, Nicole, and their little dog "Plume" on a
December evening. She had been taking pictures of illuminated caravans on a campsite on the
outskirts of Brussels when a man came out and asked her what she was doing there. She started
to apologise, but to her surprise he asked her in for a drink. Longly and the couple became
friends, and soon they were inviting her to parties while relating their fascinating life story. She
even gave them disposable cameras to record themselves at moments when she was absent.
While their story flirts with stereotypes that we all tend to have, this book is about social mobility,
ageing, and true love.
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Hayahisa Tomiyasu decided to photograph parked silver cars in two cities: Yokohama and
Leipzig. In the series 'Silver', he arranges the images he took over the course of a couple of years
as pairs of similar models. Oftentimes the make and year of the cars is almost identical.
Interestingly, in his arrangement the parked cars always face each other, because Japan and
Germany have opposing rules when it comes to the direction of traffic. The result is a rather
subtle portrayal of cultural differences, which otherwise would recede into the background of what
might come across as standard street photographs.
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