19 Nov 2010

'Digital? Analogue!' at Huis Marseille, Amsterdam

Digital? Analogue!

Huis Marseille pays tribute to analog photography by dedicating an exhibition to the character and work of master printer Peter Svenson of Aap-Lab. For more than thirty years, Svenson has been a mainstay to famous photographers as well as some who have just begun their careers. In his hands their photographs become more than nice pictures: they become works of art. Over the past ten years, most amateurs and professional photographers have given up the roll of film and switched to megapixels. Nevertheless, a remarkable international development is on the rise, as many photographers, who carry out their professional work digitally, have chosen to do more personal work on film due to the craft and the unexpected aspects that it involves. Although the computer offers unlimited possibilities for the perfection of a photograph, many photographers prefer instead to seek the limits of the medium. Within that process Peter Svenson can be a crucial link. He interprets the image in his own way, and the resulting dialogue with the photographer almost always leads to an authentic, transparent and complex image.

With photographs by: Paula van Ameijde / Taco Anema / Daniëlle van Ark / Paulien Barbas / Melanie Bonajo / Rob Bosboom / Morad Bouchakour / Dik Bouwhuis / Frank van den Broeck / Popel Coumou / Rineke Dijkstra / Leo Divendal / Eric van den Elsen / Isabel Firvida / Alicia Framis / Miklos Gaál / Joan Gannij / Martijn van de Griendt / Jasper Groen / Sigudur Gudmundsson / Ni Haifeng / Jacqueline Hassink / Astrid Hermes / Scarlett Hooft Graafland / Nadine Hottenrott / Annabel Howland / Marc Philip van Kempen / Emily Kocken / Dirk Kome / Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky / Dana Lixenberg / Annaleen Louwes / Marrigje de Maar / Thomas Manneke / Charlott Markus / Katja Mater / Hanna Mattes / Brígida Mendes / Dorothée Meyer / Antoinette Nausikäa / Rob van der Nol / Adrienne Norman / Rob Nypels / Paulien Oltheten / Liza May Post / Public Space With a Roof / Carolin Reichert / Nono Reinhold / Lon Robbé / Govert de Roos / Thirza Schaap / Maurice Scheltens / Patricia Schimmel / Eddy Seesing / Han Singels / Elsbeth Struijk van Bergen / Roos Theuws / Armando Andrade Tudela / Marianne Viero / Joyce Vlaming / Marijke van Warmerdam / Henk Wilschut / Puck Willaarts / Vincent Zedelius

Auction
In mid February 2011 the prints from the exhibition will be auctioned off for the benefit of Aap-Lab. Keep an eye on our website for the dates and additional information.