Marcel van der Vlugt
photographer · author
Marcel van der Vlugt (b. 1957, Naaldwijk) is a Dutch photographer who grew up above his father's photo studio. He graduated in photography from the Hague MTS in 1978 with a series of coastal landscapes, then moved to Düsseldorf to assist the commercial photographer Manfred Vogelsänger. He has worked as a freelance photographer since 1982. He is best known for his Polaroid work, and he worked exclusively in Polaroid material from 1986 until 2008. He now works mainly digitally. His personal and commercial images are often sensual and poetic, and his recurring theme is beauty, treated both metaphorically and literally. His books include Beauty and Other Secrets (2007), A New Day (d'Jonge Hond, 2007/2008) and Rejects (2008), and later Buds (Lecturis, 2014). His work is held in the collections of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Awards include a Cannes Lions Gold (1997) and the SAPPI award for best printed book in Europe (2008). He lives in Noordwijk.[1,2,3]
- beauty
- portraiture
- nudes
- Polaroid
- blossom as metaphor
Works by Marcel van der Vlugt
- 2007 A New Day 48 pages, 23 colour plates. The artist's site gives 2008 as the publication year.
- 2007 Beauty and Other Secrets Won the SAPPI award for best printed book in Europe, 2008.
- 2008 Rejects
- 2014 Buds
Exhibitions
- 2008 A New Day
- 1996 Heavenly Creatures
- 1992 Attractions
- 2017 Buds
- 2008 Darkside. Part 1
- 2004 Skin Tight: The Sensibility of the Flesh
Awards
- 1997 Cannes Lions Gold Award
- 2008 SAPPI Best Printed Book in Europe (Beauty and Other Secrets)
- 2016 ADCN Craft of Photography Bronze Award