Co Rentmeester: Witnessing Life (Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam)
Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam & Lannoo, 2025
€65,00
Dutch photographer Rentmeester (born 1936), who twice won the World Press Photo Award, including the first color photograph ever to win the top prize, refused to conform to the visual codes of his time. He viewed color as a moral choice, the camera as a means of reflection, and each image as a proposition. His work has shaped our memory of the twentieth century. From the Watts Rebellion in Los Angeles to the battlefields of Vietnam, from portraits of Sukarno in Indonesia to the silence of snow monkeys in Japan, his photographs offer a balance between precision and presence.
His photograph of Michael Jordan, later known as Jumpman, was named one of the 100 most influential photographs of all time by TIME magazine and became a global icon. Along with his many covers for LIFE magazine, these works represent milestones in visual culture.
This book is not a retrospective, but a lens: a journey through the archive of a photographer who has made witnessing a lifelong practice, spanning war and protest, sport and spectacle, everyday life and constructed myths.
ISBN: 9789059960138
