Bertien van Manen

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Bertien van Manen
Born1942
The Hague
Alma mater University of Leiden
OccupationPhotographer
Years active1977–present

Bertien van Manen (born 1942) is a Dutch photographer. She started her career as a fashion photographer, after having studied French and German languages and literature. Inspired by Robert Frank's The Americans she travelled around, photographing what she saw. She had her first exhibition in The Photographers' Gallery in London in 1977 and since then her work has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Fotomuseum Winterthur. Van Manen's work is found in major public collections.

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Life and work

Bertien van Manen started her photography career in 1974 as a fashion photographer after studying French language and literature at the University of Leiden.

Inspired by Robert Frank's book The Americans (1958), van Manen switched from fashion photography to a more documentary approach, she travelled around, photographing what she saw. She uses an inexpensive snapshot camera to take photos of people she meets, as she feels that these cameras allow her subjects to consider "me as a tourist or friend, who likes to take pictures." She has photographed extensively in China, the Appalachian Mountains in the US and the former Soviet Union.

She worked on commission and for long running projects, such as A Hundred Summers, A Hundred Winters (1991) about the post-Soviet states, East Wind, West Wind (2001) about China, Give me your Image (2006) about Europe, [1] Moonshine (2014) with photographs of mining families in the Appalachian Mountains, [2] and Beyond Maps and Atlases (2016) from Ireland. [3] [4]

In 2011 Let's Sit Down Before We Go was published by MACK, edited by Stephen Gill. In 2017 I Will be Wolf was published by MACK, edited by Stephen Gill.

Publications

Exhibitions

Collections

Van Manen's work is held in the following public collections:


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References

  1. ↑ Ladd, Jeffrey (5 January 2012). "Bertien van Manen: Let's Sit Down Before We Go". Time. Archived from the original on 8 January 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "'Moonshine', by photographer Bertien van Manen". Financial Times. 9 May 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  3. ↑ Mather, Annalee (9 February 2016). "Bertien van Manen, Beyond Maps and Atlases, book review". The Independent . London. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  4. ↑ O'Hagan, Sean (12 January 2016). "'Beyond everything': one woman's ghostly odyssey around Ireland". The Guardian . London. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  5. ↑ Fussell, Genevieve (9 December 2013). "A Bohemian Family Vacation". The New Yorker. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "Objects in the Rijksmuseum" . Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "Bertien Van Manen at FOMU - Fotomuseum Antwerp" . Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  8. ↑ Mangione, Giulia (22 November 2013). "City of Light: Russia at Paris Photo — Top 5". Calvert Journal.
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