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Whether he is discussing fundamentals or difficult sauces, Beaumont Newhall has an elegant, learned and concise style, which is the reason his essays on photography are so readable.
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Mariken Wessels, "I want to eat", Wessels 2009
In recent years, it has mainly been female photographers who have expanded the spectrum of photobooks. They have done so in small publications, above all with stories close to home. Photographs and documents are used in a variety of ways to serve the purposes of the artist. Wiebke Loeper, Liza Nguyen, Wytske van Keulen, Bertien van Manen and Rinku Kawauchi all come to mind in this context. Mariken Wessels has self-published a small gem about which Jeff Ladd was full of enthusiasm when he told me about it a few months ago. A collection of anonymous photographs, most of which circle around a female protagonist and which may come from a variety of albums, is juxtaposed with a collection of letters and an odd, heart-rending, and strangely melancholic story is spun which could be true or false, imagined or created by the artist. The photographs appear to be from the seventies. They have been enlarged and are thus reminiscent of Tichy or Fieret. They tell the story of a family, or fragments from the life of a young woman, and can only be understood with empathy and interest on the part of the reader.
www.marikenwessels.nl bintphotobooks.blogspot.com/2009/06/mariken-wessels.html andrew-phelps.blogspot.com/2009/11/mariken-wessels-elisabeth-i-want-to-eat.html
Cat Tuong Nguyen, "Underdog Suite", Scheidegger & Spiess 2009, 9783858812377
22.12.2009
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