Johan van der KeukenAchter glas
Photographs: Johan van der Keuken
Text: Remco Campert
Publisher: Uitgeverij C. De Boer Jr
96 pages
Pictures: 84
Year: 1961
Price: € 80
Johan Van der Keuken published his first photographs, in 1955 in a book entitled, We Are 17 and he rapidly turned his interest to cinema and music, always uniting his various passions. With his snapshots of everyday life, colorful or dark, blurry or graphic, the Dutch photographer considered photography as ‘his greatest love because it’s more private’. His images diffuse a clear sense of anxiety and enigma, no surprise his favorite film was Alfred Hitchock’s Vertigo. Johan Van der Keuken thus mastered his obsession: ‘If I cannot create images anymore, I’m dead.’
Illustrated softcover, 30 x 23.5 cm. First paperback edition 1961 after the hardback edition in 1957. Beautiful gravure printing. Text in Dutch. Reproductions very well preserved, other than some scratches, bumps and stains on the cover and inside the book (see pictures), the photographs are still in a good condition. Included in The Photobook by Parr & Badger, vol.1, p. 244
