From 22 December 2008 to 5 April 2009, the Jewish Historical
Museum will present the first major retrospective of the work of
photographer Bert Nienhuis, This exhibition, planned in close
cooperation with Nienhuis, will feature a remarkable selection of
his portraits and documentary photographs from the period
1972-2008. Many of these photos first appeared in the weekly
magazine Vrij Nederland.
Since the 1970s, the photographer Bert Nienhuis (1944) has created
an impressive photographic oeuvre, in which portraits and social
documentary play a central role. From 1975 to the present, he has
taken countless portraits of Dutch and international celebrities
for the weekly magazine Vrij Nederland. Nienhuis'
portraits form a historic archive of inestimable value. His fresh,
unaffected style and eye for telling details have earned him great
popularity as a portrait photographer.
Nienhuis' versatility and social engagement came to the fore in
his documentary work for Vrij Nederland's well-known
weekly supplements in the 1970s and 80s. He emerged as a socially
engaged photographer, documenting changes in Dutch society with
groundbreaking series about unemployment, immigration, and the
daily lives of Jews in the Netherlands. In the 1980s, at the
request of the Jewish Historical Museum, he photographed Jewish
life in the Netherlands.
The exhibition will include a short film about Bert Nienhuis by
the documentary filmmakers Thomas Doebele and Maarten Schmidt,
which will also be broadcast on Dutch television in early 2009 by
the Joodse Omroep, a Jewish broadcasting corporation. The film was
produced by René Mendel of Interakt.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Uitgeverij Atlas is publishing
the book Foto Bert Nienhuis, introduced by Gerard van
Westerloo and Mariette Haveman and designed by Victor Levie.
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