Signed; Stephan Vanfleteren - Portret
Signed copy! Sold out in shops. Stephan Vanfleteren - Portret - Tielt, Lannoo NV, - second edition - 318 pp. - Cloth with dust jacket.ISBN: Condition: As new. Dimensions: cm. Weight: g Over the past twenty years, the Flemish photographer made portraits of famous Flemish and Dutch people with a ‘relentless pinpoint-sharp lens’. This book contains 335 black-and-white photographs. The people portrayed are not always instantly recognizable, but they are captured in a fascinating manner, usually with a large aperture so that only part of the face is sharp. Sometimes only the eyes are in focus (Jan Hoet), or invisible (Wannes Van de Velde) or closed (Hugo Claus); sometimes only a hat is visible (Raymond van het Groenewoud). Most photos are solo portraits. he people portrayed come from the cultural world (artists, writers, actors), but also from sports (cyclists) and politics. Dutch people in the book include Youp van 't Hek, Mart Smeets, Katja Schuurman, Harry Mulisch and Pierre Bokma. The large-format book begins with an open letter from the photographer to the Belgian Queen Fabiola; he would have loved to portray her, but she rejected the request - unlike the Dutch Queen Beatrix, but her portrait is not included in this stylish publication. Read More