Heartbeat (dedicated)

Machiel Botman,Heartbeat (dedicated)

Machiel Botman
Heartbeat (dedicated)

Photographs: Machiel Botman

Text: Machiel Botman

Publisher: Volute

Year: 1994

Comments: Hardcover, 320 x 235 mm. First edition, 1994. Black & white photographs. Limited to 500 copies for this french edition (total edition of 1500 copies : 500 dutch copies, 500 english copies ). Just a little bit of soiling on top of the cover. In great condition. Signed and dedicated by Machiel Botman.

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Between the end of 1990 and 1994 I made about seven different dummies for Heartbeat. Some with fiberprints, the others photocopied. This began after the unexpected passing away of my mother. I had photographed about 15 years and made selections from that period, about her of course, and about everything else that mattered: my relationships, my brother, my friends, my son and the places where I lived, mostly in The Netherlands and in France. Heartbeat became a visual poem in which happiness and sadness went hand in hand. Nothing was linear or chronological in the book.

The images I used for Heartbeat were taken without any intent to publish them in a book. I never was much of a planner and I photographed from intuition, always kind of reacting to things. I began by photographing directly around me. And that never changed much, except of course, my circles of living life became larger, or different, or something.


Machiel Botman,Heartbeat (dedicated)

Machiel Botman,Heartbeat (dedicated)

Machiel Botman,Heartbeat (dedicated)

Machiel Botman,Heartbeat (dedicated)

Machiel Botman,Heartbeat (dedicated)

Machiel Botman,Heartbeat (dedicated)

Machiel Botman,Heartbeat (dedicated)

Machiel Botman,Heartbeat (dedicated)

Machiel Botman,Heartbeat (dedicated)

Machiel Botman,Heartbeat (dedicated)

Machiel Botman,Heartbeat (dedicated)

Machiel Botman,Heartbeat (dedicated)

Machiel Botman,Heartbeat (dedicated)

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