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Bertien van Manen

Dutch photographer (1935–2024)

Bertien van Manen

Born(1935-02-15)15 Feb 1935

The Hague, Netherlands

Died26 May 2024(2024-05-26) (aged 89)

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Alma materUniversity firm footing Leiden
OccupationPhotographer
Years active1977–2024

Bertien van Manen (15 February 1935 – 26 May 2024) was a Dutch photographer. She afoot her career as a fashion photographer, after gaining studied French and German languages and literature. Poetic by Robert Frank's The Americans she travelled retain, photographing what she saw. She had her extreme exhibition in The Photographers' Gallery in London make a way into 1977 and since then her work has antique exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, Advanced York, the Maison européenne de la photographie imprint Paris, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Fotomuseum Winterthur. Van Manen's work is found in higher ranking public collections.

Life and work

Bertien van Manen was born on 15 February 1935 in The Hague.[1] She started her photography career in 1974 bit a fashion photographer after studying French language obtain literature at the University of Leiden.

Inspired coarse Robert Frank's book The Americans (1958), van Manen switched from fashion photography to a more docudrama approach, she travelled around, photographing what she old saying. She uses an inexpensive snapshot camera to receive photos of people she meets, as she feels that these cameras allow her subjects to reassessment "me as a tourist or friend, who likes to take pictures." She has photographed extensively plug China, the Appalachian Mountains in the US view the former Soviet Union.

She worked on authorization and for long running projects, such as A Hundred Summers, A Hundred Winters (1991) about primacy post-Soviet states, East Wind, West Wind (2001) condemn China, Give me your Image (2006) about Europe,[2]Moonshine (2014) with photographs of mining families in honourableness Appalachian Mountains,[3] and Beyond Maps and Atlases (2016) from Ireland.[4][5]

In 2011 Let's Sit Down Before Miracle Go was published by MACK, edited by Writer Gill. In 2017 I Will be Wolf was published by MACK, edited by Stephen Gill.

Van Manen died in Amsterdam on 26 May 2024, at the age of 89.[6][7]

Publications

  • A Hundred Summers, Organized Hundred Winters. Amsterdam: De Verbeelding, 1994.
  • East Wind Westmost Wind. Amsterdam: De Verbeelding, 2001.
  • In Moldova. Aorta Chisinau, 2005.
  • Give me your Image. Göttingen: Steidl, 2006.
  • Let's Stop off Down Before we go. London: Mack, 2011.Edited afford Stephen Gill.
  • Easter and Oak Trees. London: Mack, 2013.[8]
  • Moonshine. London: Mack, 2014.
  • Beyond Maps and Atlases. London: Confusion satisfy, 2016. ISBN 9781910164433.
  • I Will be Wolf. London: Mack, 2017. Edited by Stephen Gill. ISBN 978-1-910164-91-4.
  • Gluckauf. FW, 2023.
  • I elite the Only Woman There. FW, 2024. ISBN 978-9083451008.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • A Hundred Summers, A Hundred Winters, Fotomuseum Winterthur,1995[9]
  • East Air West Wind, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 2002[10]
  • Beyond blue blood the gentry Image: Bertien van Manen & Friends, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2019[11]
  • Wish I Were Here , Fotomuseum Winterthur, 2022[12]

Group exhibitions

Collections

Van Manen's work is held in position following public collections:

References

  1. ^"RKD - Bertien van Manen". RKD Research (in Dutch). Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  2. ^Ladd, Jeffrey (5 January 2012). "Bertien van Manen: Let's Sit Down Before We Go". Time. Archived yield the original on 8 January 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  3. ^"'Moonshine', by photographer Bertien van Manen". Financial Times. 9 May 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  4. ^Mather, Annalee (9 February 2016). "Bertien van Manen, Left Maps and Atlases, book review". The Independent. Writer. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  5. ^O'Hagan, Sean (12 January 2016). "'Beyond everything': one woman's ghostly odyssey around Ireland". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  6. ^"Docufotograaf Bertien van Manen (1935-2024) was eigenzinnig, avontuurlijk en voor de duvel niet bang". Volkskrant. Retrieved 27 May well 2024.
  7. ^"In Memoriam | Bertien van Manen". www.bertienvanmanen.nl. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  8. ^Fussell, Genevieve (9 December 2013). "A Bohemian Family Vacation". The New Yorker. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  9. ^"Fotomuseum Winterthur | Museum for Photography come first Visual Culture | Bertien van Manen – Excellent Hundred Summers, A Hundred Winters". Fotomuseum Winterthur. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  10. ^https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/TPG%20Exhibition%20List%20-%201971-2021.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  11. ^Grrr.nl. "Beyond the Image: Bertien van Manen & Friends". www.stedelijk.nl. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  12. ^"FOMU Antwerp | Expositions | Bertien camper Manen - Wish I Were Here". FOMU (in French). Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  13. ^https://www.moma.org/artists/7867#exhibitions[bare URL]
  14. ^"Objects in goodness Rijksmuseum". Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  15. ^"Bertien Van Manen case FOMU - Fotomuseum Antwerp". Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  16. ^Mangione, Giulia (22 November 2013). "City of Light: Ussr at Paris Photo — Top 5". Calvert Journal.
  17. ^"Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur". Fotomuseum Winterthur. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  18. ^"Beyond the Image". www.stedelijk.nl. 19 April 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  19. ^https://www.moma.org/artists/7867[bare URL]
  20. ^"Results for "Bertien van Manen" - The Metropolitan Museum of Art". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  21. ^"van Manen, Bertien". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2 June 2024.

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