Boijmans Van
Beuningen Museum
Eddy
Posthuma de Boer and Violette Cornelius, De Verbinding (1962),
unpaginated, text: Jan Elburg photography: Violette Cornelius and Eddy
Posthuma de Boer design: Jurriaan Schrofer client: Staatsbedrijf der
PTT,
Den Haag © Nederlands Fotoarchief (nfa), Rotterdam and Eddy Posthuma
de
Boer, Amsterdam
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FOTODOCS:
photography between commission and autonomy
September 6 - November 3, 2002
Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum
Museumpark 18-20, 3015 CX Rotterdam
http://www.boijmans.nl
info@boijmans.rotterdam.nl
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FOTODOCS: photography between commission and autonomy
September 6 - November 3, 2002
'When does photography become art?' That is the question raised by
the
exhibition 'Fotodocs' in the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum. Six separate
presentations focus on the relationship between photography and art. The
point of departure is the growing interest in photography as an
(important) art-form over the past thirty years. Not only because
artists
have been resorting to photography more and more since the 1960s, but
also
due to the growing acknowledgement of 'pure' photographers' work as art
(often retrospectively). 'Fotodocs' addresses both aspects: the status
of
photography between documentary and an autonomous art-form.
The presentation is framed by a survey of the heyday of Dutch corporate
photography books from 1945 to 1965 - work with a purely documentary
character - and by highlights from the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum's
collection of photography, a selection of photographs conveying an
impression of how artists use the medium in an autonomous fashion.
'Fotodocs' consists furthermore of solo presentations of work by three
generations of Rotterdam photographer/artists (Ine Lamers, Edgar Cleijne
and the Wally Elenbaas/Esther Hartog team), and also of the project
'Solutions for Today' by the British designer/photographer Jeremy
Edwards.
Edgar Cleijne
After graduating from the Rotterdam Conservatory, Edgar Cleijne
(Eindhoven, 1963) embarked on his African travels, living in Cairo,
Kinshasa and Lagos. His photography brought him into contact with
architect Rem Koolhaas in 1997, with whom he collaborated on the Harvard
Project 'the city', set up by Koolhaas at Harvard University and
pinpointing Lagos. In 2002, together with Bregtje van der Haak (VPRO
TV),
Cleijne made the film 'Lagos Live'. The photographs he took in Lagos
over
the past two years prompt reflections on human intervention. Aerial
photos
show the effect of such intervention on a macro-level as well as in
people's everyday living and working environments, such as an office
interior
Ine Lamers
Ine Lamers (Wychen, 1954) integrates photography and film in a highly
individual manner. The pictures she takes with photo and film cameras
are
ostensibly high-resolution snapshots of the world around us, but they
are
never unambiguous. The exhibition features a number of photographs from
earlier series (1994-2002) and the first presentation of a video and
slide
projection called 'One or two things I know about Chisinau'. This 'novel
in pictures' is about the desolate Moldavian capital. The bad economic
situation in the former Soviet republic means electricity cuts and
forces
the younger generation, their dogged optimism notwithstanding, to resort
to bizarre means in order to survive. A book (NAi Publishers) about Ine
Lamers' work accompanies the exhibition.
Dutch Corporate Photo Books 1945 - 1965
Works by photographers like Violette Cornelius, Cas Oorthuys, Ed van der
Elsken, Ad Windig and Paul Huf.
Wally Elenbaas and Esther Hartog
Photographic themes reflecting personal lives: each other, friends,
journeys, still lifes and the nearby surroundings of Katendrecht.
Solutions for Today by Jeremy Edwards
Pictures in big cities of simple, makeshift solutions for practical
problems encountered in everyday situations.
A selection from the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum's photography
collection
The selection includes early examples from the 1970s and traces the
development to recent acquisitions which include work by Allan Sekula,
Gabriel Orozco and Rineke Dijkstra.
Fotodocs Factsheet
Fotodocs is a part of "Another look at the city", the second week-end
of
September in Rotterdam (five weekends of art and culture.) Dutch
Corporate
Photo Books 1945 - 1965 is the first of a new series of 'Beeldcultuur in
Nederland', an initiative of the Prince Bernhard Cultural Fund.
The following publications appear concurrently with Fotodocs:
Parallel to the exhibition Dutch Corporate Photo Books 1945 - 1965, 010
Publishers (Rotterdam) issue 'Het bedrijfsfotoboek 1945 - 1965.
Professionalisering van fotografen in Nederland'. This is the first of
a
new series of Beeldcultuur in Nederland [Visual Culture in the
Netherlands], edited by Professor Dr. Bram Kempers. The publication is
an
initiative of the Prince Bernhard Cultural Fund. Illustrated. Dutch
text,
English summary.
Duo Duo Foundation/Publishers issue the first publication on the
photographic work of Wally Elenbaas: De honderd gezichten van Esther
Hartog [The hundred faces of Esther Hartog], containing a number of
remarkably serene nudes. Illustrated. Dutch text. Hard-bound edition.
To mark the presentation of Ine Lamers' work, NAi Publishers issue
'Motives'. Ine Lamers' selection for this publication contains
photo-works
dating from 1994 to 2001 and a few examples of her new film
installations.
Authors: Chris Dercon (foreword), Frits Gierstberg, Maaijke Bleeker,
Frank
Vande Veire. Illustrated (in colour). Dutch and English text.
For prices and more information please visit our website:
http://www.boijmans.nl, or call
our Press Office at 00 31 10 44 19 471.
You may also send an e-mail to pressoffice@boijmans.rotterdam.nl
Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum
Museumpark 18-20, 3015 CX Rotterdam
Internet: http://www.boijmans.nl / e-mail:
info@boijmans.rotterdam.nl
Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.;
Sundays and
public holidays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; closed on Mondays, January 1,
April 30 and December 25
Access for wheelchair visitors
How to get there : the museum is a 15-minute walk from Centraal
Station.
Public transport: no. 5 tram from the station, alight at Witte de
Withstraat; no. 32 and 39 buses, alight at Rochussenstraat; metro
station
Eendrachtsplein.
Parking: Westblaak parking garage, 88 Westblaak (entrance via
Hartmanstraat).
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