Author | Henze Boekhout |
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Pages | n.p. |
Signed | No |
ISBN | 9065790411 |
Publisher | Fragment |
Publishing date | 1993 |
Publishing place | Amsterdam |
Language | English |
Edition | first edition |
Binding | Hardcover without dustjacket (as issued) |
Book condition | Collectible; Very Good |
Condition description | Light toning to page edges. Very nice copy! |
Dimensions (cm hxb) | 28,5 x 28,5 |
Number published | 1500 |
Review by Hans Aarsman in NRC
There’s something about this book that makes me keep picking it up. I’ve already
had it in my house for a few weeks and I still can’t pin down what makes it so
special. No spectacular photo, no accessible theme. Whenever I open it, the book
slips on to my lap while I drift into dreaming with a picture of the back of a bus driver’s
head. The next time the daydreaming starts in front of a picture of a piano with a
projection screen next to it. I can scarcely see a link between the photos, sometimes
a shape recurs, or a colour, that’s all. However, they are irrefutably related to one
another. Someone is trying to say something, but what? Sometimes it is best to
begin at the beginning, sit down at a table and methodically write down everything
you notice.
The double title-page: SECONDS is printed on the left, FIRST is on the right. Both
words are printed on a background that suddenly reminds me of the corrugated
aluminium of my draining-board, that well-known honeycomb pattern. That is where
the dishcloths are left. So this book is not a collection of someone’s most beautiful
photographs. This is the stage on which the first violin may play, the one who
would otherwise have to remain in the shadows: dishcloths, draining-boards. I see
television sets in the book, a remote-control has even been given the leading role.
Staff picks
Seconds First
€75.00
82 Photos by Henze Boekhout,design by Irma Boom and Henze Boekhout,
Dedicated and signed.
Het Nederlandse fotoboek, pag. 202
In stock