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Helena van der Kraan
Still Life
€18,00
21 × 26 cm, 32 p, stapled
ISBN 9789464665109
design and editing: Jurgen Maelfeyt
ISBN 9789464665109
design and editing: Jurgen Maelfeyt
edition of 500
September 2022
September 2022
Helena van der Kraan (1940-2020) is a photographer’s photographer, her photos make you reflect on the ordinary things in life. Due to the great simplicity of both subject and image, the viewer may be inclined to associate a metaphor with what has been photographed, she never tries to steer the viewer’s interpretation. For her personally, a bottle remains a bottle. She finds comfort and beauty in the photography of the everyday and is eager to share this with others. This is the first book devoted solely to her still life work, the images in the book are selected to compliment her latest, posthumous, solo Still (a) Life at Madé van Krimpen Gallery.
In collaboration with Madé van Krimpen Gallery.
Helena van der Kraan initially worked as a graphic artist, but switched to photography in the early 1970s. She was born in the Czech Republic, but after the Russian invasion of her country in 1968, she fled to the Netherlands. In Amsterdam, she trained at the Ateliers'63 and met visual artist Axel van der Kraan, who became her partner. Initially, she mainly documented both their (sculpture) work, but photography became her actual medium during the 1970s.