Collector's Mania
I find myself in a room barely ten square metres large with two computers, three chairs, a desk and 5,500 books. I am visiting the greatest collector of Dutch photography books, Jan Wingender.
I find myself in a room barely ten square metres large with two computers, three chairs, a desk and 5,500 books. I am visiting the greatest collector of Dutch photography books, Jan Wingender.
Heartbeat. A book by Machiel Botman (1955), photographer, teacher, curator and, in a distant past, a musician as well.
You can make prints at home using refined printing processes. For instance, the techniques available are Bromoil, Cyanotype, Gum Bichromate, Salt Printing and Argyrotype. I’ll be using the latter to print brown, sepia-coloured pictures.
For a photographer a project has come full circle if it ends with an exhibition. And it’s even more complete when it culminates in a photo book.
10 questions for Martin Parr, one of the world’s most passionate collectors and an authority on photo books.
I think that one can hardly overestimate the impact of a powerful photo book, even in a time when a large part of the world has access to mass media such as television and internet.