9783883755762

Book Description: Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2002. No binding. Book Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Unbound cardstock sheets contained in a photographically illustrated card box. Photographs by Hellen van Meene. Interview with the artist (in English and Dutch) by Karel Schampers. Includes a brief biography, exhibition history and bibliography (in English). Designed by bureau gras, Alkmaar, The Netherlands. Unpaginated (33 loose sheets printed on heavy cardstock), with 30 four-color plates printed by Lecturis and drukkerij Krijgsman. 8 x 8 inches. This first edition was limited to 2500 copies. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Hellen van Meene, Japan Series" at Inverleith House, The Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, De Hallen, Haarlem, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Out of print. Scarce. CONDITION: New in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hellen van Meene creates awkward self-conscious moments in young girls lives in order to photograph them.In what appears to be somewhat collusive, the girls display bruises or odd-fitting garments. Perhaps she intends the audience to imagine the difficulty and powerlessness of young girls as they move into adolescence. Perhaps she is recreating her own memory of the experience.There are a number of photographers who explore this particular territory and the work always manages to hit the same slightly sarcastic edge.The viewer is always on the "inside" with the photographer, and the girl, the model, is always disenfranchised in the name of high art and psychological importance. From the publisher: "Dutch photographer Hellen van Meene was herself barely out of girlhood when she began to photograph adolescent girls whom she knew, or found, in her home town of Alkmaar in the north of Holland. Invited to photograph in Japan in 2000, she found that while she could not communicate directly with her subjects, her instincts regarding the universality of adolescent experience, and her visual and stylistic approach to it, were translatable. In her square-format, medium-focal-length pictures of unnamed girls, van Meene strives to compose 'photographs of adolescent situations and attitudes, which represent the type of "normality" we don't usually share with others, but keep to ourselves.'. Bookseller Inventory # 101913

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