Ellen Thorbecke: Van Peking tot Parijs (Nederlands Fotomuseum)
Ruben Lundgren, Rik Suermondt
Nederlands Fotomuseum & Lecturis, 2021
€45,00
‘Ellen Thorbecke – from Beijing to Paris’ tells the story of Ellen Thorbecke (1902-1973), who occupied a unique position in international photography. The book presents a rare picture of everyday life in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Paris and the Middle East in the 1930s and 1940s. Places where Thorbecke lived and worked during her life and which form the guideline of the book. In 1931 Ellen Thorbecke left for China. She bought her first camera for this trip. Originally a journalist, Thorbecke developed into a compelling photographer who provided her photos with concerned observations about the people and places she visited. She made reports in a lively candid style with an eye for the vitality of street life and realized several photo books, including ‘Beijing Studies’ (1934) and ‘People in China’ (1935). Her visual stories make her oeuvre, one of the gems in the Collection of the Nederlands Fotomuseum, a unique document of the time. Her small but special photo archive was entrusted to the museum in 2008 and consists of 638 black and white negatives, 166 of which were made in China. The images Thorbecke made are still relevant today because of her human, direct and unbiased way of looking. The book is published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Ellen Thorbeckes China’ in the Nederlands Fotomuseum. It is the first monograph in an ongoing series on the collection of the Nederlands Fotomuseum. Previously published publications with overviews of group exhibitions ‘Strong stories’, ‘Rotterdam Works!’ and ‘The Hall of Fame of Dutch Photography’. IN DUTCH!
ISBN: 9789462264083
