Archive by Bertien van Manen

A collection of works by Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen.

After studying French and German literature at Leiden University in the Netherlands, van Manen worked as a translator, French teacher, and model while raising two young children. However, at the age of 40, she began her career as one of the few female fashion photographers in Amsterdam at the time, and was later inspired by Swiss photographer Robert Frank's landmark documentary photobook, The Americans (published in 1958), to become a documentary photographer. While working as a photojournalist for a Dutch publishing company, van Manen traveled around the world to take photographs, including in Europe, Asia, and the United States.

This book introduces van Manen's world in a wide range of areas, including works created up to 2021, as well as diaries and selected unpublished archives. Hans Gremen, a Dutch graphic designer and founder of the independent Dutch publishing house Fw:Books, has created the first comprehensive collection of van Manen's work, beautifully expressing the author's unique insight into history and his trajectory.

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Title: Archive
Artist: Bertien van Manen
MACK, 2021
OTA bound paperback with dust jacket
281 x 215 mm
384 pages
Text in English
First edition
ISBN: 9781912339662
¥12,100 -