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Reflect # 07: questioning history: imagining the past in contemporary art

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During the past several decades, contemporary artists have asked critical questions about the way in which history is constructed through images, particularly those that are disseminated by the mass media. As the media has increasingly assumed the role of historiographer, there is a danger of losing the diversity of our historical narratives. Add to this the globalization of our culture, and we are faced with a potential dulling of our collective historical awareness. In Questioning History, editors Frank van der Stok, Frits Gierstberg and Flip Bool focus on different ways in which contemporary visual artists, photographers and filmmakers have constructed historical narratives through images and offer a selection of essays that examine artists' innovative challenges to prevailing historical narratives.

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Cas Oorthuys

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Issu de la génération dite de la 'New Photography' et figure majeure de la photographie néerlandaise, Cas Oorthuys (1908-1975) a parcouru le monde de l’entre-deux-guerres aux années 1970. À travers un témoignage unique de près de 500 000 photographies pour la plupart en 6x6, ses images mêlent la petite et la grande histoire. Ce corpus, présenté sous la forme de planches contact et ponctuées d'images en gros plan, propose une sélection de près de 500 photographies issues des archives du Nederlands Fotomuseum de Rotterdam.

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Andor Von Barsy : photographer in Rotterdam 1927-1942

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Though known mostly for his films, the German-Hungarian photographer Andorvon Barsy's (1899 - 1965) began in 1930 to take dynamic photos of the harbors of Rotterdam, aiming his camera at cranes and bridges to capture a dynamic image of modern steel construction. This groundbreaking exhibition catalog commemorates the first public showing ever of these vital, almost-abstract photos from the eye of an early modern artist. Von Barsy's best-known movies (such as 1928's De stad die nooit rust and 1930's experimental Hoogstraat) are featured at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011. The impeccably printed catalog includesaround 100 photographs, with an introduction by art historian and critic Frits Gierstberg, head of exhibitions at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam.

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Simply a line : no man's land between Bulgaria and Turkey

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Border landscapes are emotionally charged spaces, especially those of the former Iron Curtain. In 2004 Vesselina Nikolaeva (born 1976) was granted permission to photograph the Bulgarian-Turkish border. This volume presents her photos alongside archival images of border guards.