Reportages in licht en schaduw

“The results of fifteen years of photography are arranged according to four disparate themes: portraits off Dutch writers and artists (including his hero Brassaï), young women, still lives and street scenes / landscapes” (Rik Suermondt).

Joint: an original little print by VAN MOERKERKEN of the Dutch writer Simon Carmiggelt in1947 who wrote the text of this book. (With a photographer’s stamp on the back). One of the portraits in this series has been reproduced in the book, see plate 16.

• Amsterdam: G.A. van Oorschot, 1947
• Large 4to (320 x 255 mm), 108 pp
• Green cloth and an illustrated dust jacket
• First edition. A selection of 106 black and white photographs.
• Ref.: Auer, 802 photo books from the M. + M. Auer collection, n° 329 Gierstberg / Suermondt, The Dutch Photobook, page 192.