Emmy Andriesse Hidden Lens, Louise Baring
Hardcover
First edition, 2013
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Emmy Andriesse (1914-1953) is one of the most important 20th century women photographers, best known for her unforgettable portrayal of Amsterdam's Hunger Winter of 1944-45. Andriesse was born into a liberal Dutch Jewish family. She was trained at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague under the aegis of Gerrit Kiljan and Paul Schuitema. They pioneered the "New Photography", based on Bauhaus principles, and encouraged students to experiment with its role as a documentary medium.
Her rigorous yet sensitive approach enabled Andriesse to produce images of extraordinary poetic power, while her versatile fashion, documentary, portrait and landscape photographs reveal her curiosity about her fellow human beings and sense of beauty in the world around her. She used her quick perception to capture everyday life, often emphasizing a specific aspect to lend strength to her compositions: cyclists pedalling into an oblong of sunlight on a cobbled street; the diagonal of a woman's bare legs stretched out on a beach, the sand rippled by the ebbing tide; three fishermen dwarfed by a giant net slicing across the foreground, or a blonde-haired Amsterdam teenager powdered with falling snow, as he clutches his bicycle on his way to the frozen canals.
Her image of the fishermen behind a net, taken in 1940, just before the German invasion, proved her last published photograph until after the war. Unable to work, then forced to wear the yellow star, her life darkened. Her marriage to Dick Elffers, who was from a Protestant family, protected her only for a while. Thus, in early 1943 Andriesse went into hiding. Together with Dick Elffers, she joined the "artists' resistance" - risky work for which the penalty was execution — venturing out again only in the final months of the war to document ordinary lives under exceptional circumstances in the Hunger Winter — the images that defined her career. Though she survived the war, Andriesse feared she would die before she reached forty, like her own mother. lt was this premonition that in part fuelled her eagerness for living, an eagerness for photographing, seeing, experiencing, suffering, enjoying... reflected in both her varied choice of subjects and tangled personal life.
Andriesse's strength lay in her ability to combine dramatic intensity with aesthetic rigour, photographing an astonishing array of subjects during a career that spanned only seventeen years. Her fourteen thousand-odd negatives and contact sheets, housed at Special Collections of Leiden University Libraries, are a testament to her enormous drive and discipline.
Louise Baring has contributed to The Economist, Vogue, Daily Telegraph and the Independent on Sunday. She is the author of the acclaimed books Martine Franck (2007) and Norman Parkinson: A Very British Glamour (2009). She lives and works in London.
‘Louise Baring, a British journalist and author, has selected about 100 of Andriesse’s 14,000 negatives and contact sheets and written a brief biography to accompany them. Despite her short career, Andriesse’s photos show her joy and perception in subjects from high-fashion models to portraits of artists to simple everyday scenes as well as a documentary legacy of the German occupation.’ - Jewish Book Council
Language: English
Cover photograph: Nude, Camperduin, North Holland, 1951
Back: Hunger Winter, Amsterdam, 1944-45
Emmy Andriesse Hidden Lens, Louise Baring, very good copy
Schilt Publishing Books, 2013, first edtion, hardcover with dust jacket, 25,9 x 19,0 x 2,5 cm, 208 pages
ISBN 9789053307908
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