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KEUKEN, Jo(h)an van der (1938 - 2001)

Wij zijn 17

Wij zijn 17

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  • 240 x 155 mm.
  • Dutch
  • 64 pages
  • Bussum, Van Dishoeck, 1955
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Ed van der Elsken, just back from a stay of several years in Paris,
saw the work of Van der Keuken and encouraged him to publish it.

The publication was a success, five editions, but this selection of gloomy, smoking, artistic youngsters also received a lot of criticism in these years of reconstruction after the Second World War; Following the publication of Wij
zijn 17, Johan van der Keuken received a grant to study at the Film Academy in Paris. And the rest is history...

  • Bussum, Van Dishoeck
  • 1955
  • 8vo (240 x 155 mm), 60) pp
  • Softcover with an illustrated front cover
  • First edition, first printing of the first book by this famous Dutch artist, at the age of 17. 
  • 30 (including the front cover)black and white portraits of his friends.
  • Text by the  Dutch writer Simon Carmiggelt.
  • Lit.: Boom/ Suermondt, Photography between covers, page 88,
    Parr/Badger, The Photobook, A History, vol. I, page 244, Auer, 802 photo books from the M. + M. collection, number 354, Gierstberg/Suermondt, The Dutch Photobook, pages 46 and 47.
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