More Information
Author Koos Breukel
Pages 36
Signed No
ISBN 9075574037
Publisher Willem van Zoetendaa
Publishing date 1996
Publishing place Amsterdam
Language English
Edition First edition
Binding Hardcover without dustjacket (as issued)
Book condition New
Condition description Mint
Cover condition New
Dimensions (cm hxb) 18x15

Dutch photographers

Hyde

€20.00
The series of portraits of Michael Matthews might almost be described as a manifesto, so strong are the lines of force prefiguring Koos Breukel’s later work. He originally responded to a request from Matthews, an HIV-positive poet and performer who saw these photographic sessions as his last performance before his death. These are sombre images of dry, dark, cracked skin, of the pure lines of a delicate bone structure, capturing the light falling on the ultimate beauty of a changing human body from which Koos was to make an artwork in its own right – with the little book composed by Willem van Zoetendaal forming its delicate yet powerful punctuation. (text Elisabeth Nora)
In stock