Eilers Bernard F. 1878-1951 (Monografieen van Nederlandse fotografen (12)

Amsterdam cityscapes, portraits, still lifes, architecture, factories and advertising photographs show the breadth of Bernard F. Eilers’s practice. His winter views use mist, snow and subdued light to shape a picturesque image of the old city, while commissioned photographs of buildings, production halls, workers and machinery adopt a more documentary approach to early twentieth-century modernization. The monograph also examines his photographs of Amsterdam School architecture, art reproductions and carefully lit commercial subjects such as shells, crystals and Philips products. Alongside this range of genres, it presents Eilers as a technically inquisitive photographer who worked with autochrome and multi-colour bromoil printing and developed his own Fotochroma Eilers colour process. Essays, biographical material, notes, a bibliography and a catalogue of 220 photographs place the images within his career as both an art and professional photographer.