Theo Baart (Amsterdam 1957) studied at the photography department of the Gerrit Rietveld Art school in Amsterdam. Questions of development reflect our culture in a way that is so visual that it can force itself upon a photographer. The permanent friction in Dutch culture between the urge to control the processes of change and the usually rather uncompromising or surprising practice has become his point of reference. He tries to make his work enter into dialogue with other disciplines, such as environmental planning.
From: Documentary Now! Contemporary strategies in photography, film and the visual arts (NAi publishers, 2005)
Publications:
- Hollandse Interieurs / Dutch Interiors (1993)
- Snelweg Highways in the Netherlands (1996) in collaboration with Cary Markerink (text Tracy Metz)
- Bouwlust, the urbanization of a polder (1999)
- Atlas of Change (2001) text Tracy Metz
- Territorium (2003)
- Periferie / Periphery (2003)
- achterland-voorland (2005)
- Nagele Revisited (2006) in collaboration with Cary Markerink (text Warna Oosterbaan)
Cary Markerink In the beginning of the 70th, after a period of indecisiveness whether to continue in painting or to explore the profession of film making, Cary Markerink dedicated himself to photography. He finished the Gerrit Rietveld Art school in 1978. In the same year his project 'City stills' which he started during his Art School period was honored an assignment by the Municipal City Council of Amsterdam, a project in which he broke with the then general practice of so called 'social photography'.
His photography mostly combines a distinct interest in the formal aspects of the medium combined with the stance of an outsider looking at the visual by-effects caused by the behavior of the society he is living in.
In 1981 he was cofounder of Fragment Publishers which aimed at reviving the then almost extinct tradition of the author photo-book in the Netherlands.
In 1991 he received the Amsterdam Maria Austria price for his landscape photography.
His photography mostly combines a distinct interest in the formal aspects of the medium combined with the stance of an outsider looking at the visual by-effects caused by the behavior of the society he is living in.
In 1981 he was cofounder of Fragment Publishers which aimed at reviving the then almost extinct tradition of the author photo-book in the Netherlands.
In 1991 he received the Amsterdam Maria Austria price for his landscape photography.
Some of the projects he realized are:
- City stills (1976 - 1979)
- Big city (1984)
- Post-war housing in the Netherlands (1985 - 1987)*
- Nagele N.o.p. (1988)*
- Album (1993 - 1994)
- Snelweg / Highways in the Netherlands (1996)*
- Memory Traces (1997 - )
- Coastline (2001)
- Nagele [revisited] (2005 - 2006)*
*in collaboration with Theo Baart