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Beyond Photography: Photography and Imagination
Publisher: Voetnoot, 2009
Hardcover, 280 pages, English
Size: 28x23cm
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Beyond Photography: Photography and Imagination presents a selection of work by contemporary Dutch and Belgian artists who create their own worlds in their photographic works. Captivating images that sometimes align with Romanticism and Surrealism. A mysterious world full of sensuality, fantasy, and theatricality, where the technique of photography is no more than a tool and the documentary element has disappeared.

Photography has taken off worldwide: it is time to extensively highlight creative photography in the Netherlands and Belgium from the period 1980 to the present.
In addition to over 200 images, four essays are included on photography based on imagination and fantasy. Rommert Boonstra describes staged photography in the Netherlands in the 1980s, while Lotte Menkman examines the preceding period with work by ‘pioneers’ such as Emiel van Moerkerken, Steef Zoetmulder, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Pieter Laurens Mol, and Paul de Nooijer. Maartje van den Heuvel sheds light on the position of the photograph in a digitized culture, while Eric Min provides an overview of creative photography in Belgium with work by René Guiette, Serge Vandercam, and Julien Coulommier, among others. Beyond Photography contains texts about and photographic works by Jasper de Beijer, Melanie Bonajo, Elke Boon, Rommert Boonstra, Marlo Broekmans, Christian Carez, Anton Corbijn, Elspeth Diederix, Martijn Doolaard, Henk Elenga, Ruud van Empel, Winfred Evers, Astrid Hermes, Teun Hocks, Marc Hoflack, Hendrik Kerstens, Micha Klein, Ellen Kooi, Hellen van Meene, Arno Nollen, Erwin Olaf, Paul Overdijk, Carla van de Puttelaar, Wouter van Riessen, Arno Roncada, Frank van de Salm, Schilte & Portielje, Tjarda Sixma, Jean-Marc Spaans, Walter Wally Steevensz, Henk Tas, Nadine Tasseel, Oscar Voch, and Edwin Zwakman.

‘Art is a healing sorceress,’ said Nietzsche.
He undoubtedly had this book in mind.