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Artist Statement:
Although I have covered a wide
range of subjects through the
years, from avantgarde jazz to
Egypt and from house parties
to gypsies, I am basically a
street photographer. My main
subject is "people in their
social environment", and I
consider Garry Winogrand's
work to be the purest form of
this style of contemporary
personalized documentary. It
has had a decisive influence
on my personal approach and
and still has while subjects
may change and my style keeps
evolving over the years.
STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
Street photography is very
often a completely
misunderstood categorization,
as many portfolios and blogs
about streets and buildings
under that heading testify.
Real street photography is,
however, concerned with people
in their daily (often urban)
surroundings. This style of
photography is fast and
intuitive, related to
documentary photography, but
highly individualized.
MY BEST IMAGES
As my best images I consider
those that show a situation
which is of psychologic or
sociologic interest, enigmatic
rather than explanatory, and I
am at the same time aiming at
certain iconic aesthetics. My
belief is not that "less is
more", since "more is more"
seems more logical, and allows
me to fill my pictures with
lots of visual information,
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Artist Exhibitions:
selected recent exhibitions:
1995 "La Cambre", Brussels(B);
1996 Musée de la Photographie,
Charleroi(B); Hôtel de Sully,
Paris(F)
1997 Museet for Fotokunst,
Odense(DK); Canal de IsabelII,
Madrid(E);
Centro Andaluz de la
Fotografia, Almería(E);
1998 Town Hall, The Hague(NL);
2000 Cultural Centre ...
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Artist Galleries:
ICM - Photography for
Collectors, Haarlem(NL); phone
+31235519093; email
fr.troost@wxs.nl
Fotokabinet, The Hague(NL);
phone +31702202984; email
info@fotokabinet.nl...
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
The Corcoran Museum of Art,
Washington D.C.(USA)
Musée de l'Élysée,
Lausanne(CH)
Museet for Fotokunst,
Odense(DK)
FotoMuseum Provincie
Antwerpen, Antwerpen (B)
Musée de la Photographie,
Charleroi(B)
Museum of London, London(GB)
Musée Français de la
Photographie, Bièvres(F)
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Commissions:
Municipality of Zoetermeer
(NL): "New housing projects"
1972
ICIM B.V., Rijswijk (NL):
"Infrastructure and automation
in the landscape" 1990
The Hague Municipal Archive:
"The Hague's Periphery" 2001
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Tom Stappers Biography:
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| Your Personal Biography |
I started photographing at a rather young age and when I saw Bruce Davidson's pictures of Britain in a 1961 issue of Queen magazine, I realized that this was what I wanted to do - people photography, reality. So I started to photograph my surroundings and the people I came across. Because of my interests I came into contact with a wide range of often fascinating people. Many of them seemed to enjoy my taking their pictures, or at least tolerated me, and my confidence grew.
After a period during which Henri Cartier-Bresson was a big influence in my work, I was more and more drawn to the streetwise and witty "grabshot aesthetics" of Garry Winogrand. This style, called 'street photography' because it originated on the streets, became a second nature to me. The quick recognition of the visual potential of a changing situation, and the corresponding instant reaction of taking the photograph are essential to this kind of photography.
I even found that this direct and intuitive approach changed the way I photographed other subjects, like my 'vegetation' series, or the 'town periphery' assignment that I did for The Hague. It was the 'house parties' series, however, in which I could use the full potential of street photography, just as I did in my actual photography on the streets that went on as a parallel exploit. I feel that this is a continuous learning proces in which everything is connected with everything else in the search for the images that can make sense of the world I see. |
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