Het Nederlandse fotoboek / druk 1: een thematische selectie, na 1945

Company life, youth culture, landscapes, cities and travel are explored through reproductions of Dutch photobook covers and selected interior pages. This survey of post-war photobooks is organised into six thematic and chronological chapters, with a further category devoted to autonomous photographic books. Each chapter describes twenty selected publications and illustrates their covers and parts of their contents. The selection of more than 120 books is placed in the context of developments in photography and society. A central thread is the Dutch tradition of close collaboration between photographers and graphic designers. The focus is on the photobook as a form, bringing together examples across these different subjects rather than concentrating on a single photographer.