"The photos in this book have been made between 1991 and 2009 in Russia, Moldova, Kazachstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Tatarstan, Georgia. The editing and sequencing of the images have been done by Stephen Gill.The title of these series, 'Lets's sit down before we go', is a metaphor for the subject of the images. An old habit in Russia. Before leaving for a long journey, people sit down for a moment and think about where they will be going and why..."--Photographer's website.

Let's Sit Down Before We Go by Bertien Van Manen (2011-11-01)

Bertien Van Manen

Mack

<p>Bertien van Manen's blissful images of family holidays in den Eikenhorst (literally meaning Nest of Oak Trees) from the 1970s are the subject of her latest publication, Easter and Oak Trees. It was her son, one of the primary subjects in the series, who recently reminded van Manen of the archive. Lightness dominates these black and white images, and the obvious pleasure, family warmth and security of her children and family in the less politically correct '70s. Children pose, play and run but ultimately the photographs communicate the intimate comfort that comes with family, uninhibited in their expression and exposure to the camera. Easter and Oak Trees offers an enticing invitation to share a small part of this familial idyll. The images raise the question, could a photographer still do this in 2013? Could she photograph her children naked, footloose and carefree, acting up to the camera with fake cigarettes and a bottle of beer? Or is this spontaneity, this innocence, lost thanks to rancid affairs and small-minded moralism? Whilst this work is some of the earliest made by van Manen, it has all the qualities found in her mature work. "One recognizes the lyrical looseness, the sensuality and the melancholy but also a striving for balance and composition. Her photographs look like free, insouciant improvisations on themes, that later, in 'a Hundred Summers a Hundred Winters' or in 'East Wind West Wind' have taken shape in a more outspoken way". Hripsimé Visser</p>

Easter and Oak Trees

32 colour plates / 32 fotografie a colori di Bertien Van Manen . 4to pp. 60 Rilegato (hardback) Nuovo (New) In questo nuovo corpus di lavori, Beyond Maps and Atlases, Bertien van Manen guarda all'Irlanda. Van Manen dice: 'In un primo momento, lavorando in Irlanda, non ero sicura di quello che stavo cercando. Mio marito era morto. Ho fatto a meno della gente e riflettuto sull'atmosfera. Ero guidata da un sentimento e da una ricerca, un desiderio di un qualche tipo di significato in un luogo di miti e leggende. C'era mistero e infinito al confine di una terra oltre la quale non c'era altro che una vasta distesa'. Van Manen si è imbattuta nella fotografia quasi per caso, scattando foto dei suoi figli con una vecchia macchina fotografica. Non appena il suo lavoro è diventato pubblico è stata subito risucchiata nel mondo della fotografia di moda. Nel 1977 stanca di questo settore e attratta dalla fotografia documentaria di Robert Frank e Josef Koudelka, van Manen ha cominciato a esplorare il rapporto che si sviluppa tra se stessa e i suoi soggetti, mantenendo con loro una vicinanza e sviluppando uno stile fotografico molto personale.

Beyond Maps and Atlases

MACK BOOKS

<p>Manen crée des photographies intimes et poignantes de scènes banales, réalisées lors de longs voyages en Europe, en Amérique, en Chine et dans l'ex-Union soviétique. Van Manen s'est imposée comme une voix unique dans la photographie documentaire, son langage visuel imprégné d'empathie et de respect pour la vie quotidienne de ses sujets. Ce livre présente un aperçu complet du travail de van Manen, ainsi que des entrées de journal et des sélections inédites de ses archives. Le livre a été édité et conçu par le célèbre designer néerlandais Hans Gremmen pour offrir un aperçu et un aperçu uniques de l’histoire de van Manen, faisant de cette publication l’œuvre de référence ultime sur son œuvre. Bertien van Manen (né en 1942) vit et travaille à Amsterdam. Sa monographie la plus récente, Beyond Maps and Atlases, a été publiée par MACK en 2016. Elle a publié sept monographies précédentes dont Cent étés, cent hivers (1994); East Wind West Wind (2004); Donnez-moi votre image (2005); et Assoyons-nous avant de partir (2011), entre autres. Le travail de van Manen a été exposé internationalement dans des musées tels que le Museum of Modern Art de New York; Fotomuseum Winterthur; Musée Stedelijk, Amsterdam; Photographer’s Gallery, Londres; et le Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo. Son travail est conservé dans les collections permanentes de plusieurs grands musées, dont le Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York; le Museum of Modern Art, New York; et Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.</p>

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