Bertien van Manen explained

Bertien van Manen
Birth Date:15 February 1935
Birth Place:The Hague, Netherlands
Death Place:Amsterdam, Netherlands
Alma Mater:University of Leiden
Years Active:1977–2024
Occupation:Photographer

Bertien van Manen (15 February 1935 – 26 May 2024) was a Dutch photographer. She started her career as a fashion photographer, after having studied French and German languages and literature. Inspired by Robert Frank's The Americans she travelled around, photographing what she saw. She had her first exhibition in The Photographers' Gallery in London in 1977 and since then her work has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Fotomuseum Winterthur. Van Manen's work is found in major public collections.

Life and work

Bertien van Manen was born on 15 February 1935 in The Hague.[1] She started her photography career in 1974 as a fashion photographer after studying French language and literature at the University of Leiden.

Inspired by Robert Frank's book The Americans (1958), van Manen switched from fashion photography to a more documentary approach, she travelled around, photographing what she saw. She uses an inexpensive snapshot camera to take photos of people she meets, as she feels that these cameras allow her subjects to consider "me as a tourist or friend, who likes to take pictures." She has photographed extensively in China, the Appalachian Mountains in the US and the former Soviet Union.

She worked on commission and for long running projects, such as A Hundred Summers, A Hundred Winters (1991) about the post-Soviet states, East Wind, West Wind (2001) about China, Give me your Image (2006) about Europe,[2] Moonshine (2014) with photographs of mining families in the Appalachian Mountains,[3] and Beyond Maps and Atlases (2016) from Ireland.[4] [5]

In 2011 Let's Sit Down Before We Go was published by MACK, edited by Stephen Gill. In 2017 I Will be Wolf was published by MACK, edited by Stephen Gill.

Van Manen died in Amsterdam on 26 May 2024, at the age of 89.[6] [7]

Publications

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Collections

Van Manen's work is held in the following public collections:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: RKD - Bertien van Manen . 2024-05-28 . RKD Research . nl-NL.
  2. News: Bertien van Manen: Let’s Sit Down Before We Go . https://web.archive.org/web/20120108175650/http://lightbox.time.com/2012/01/05/bertien-van-manen-lets-sit-down-before-we-go/#1 . dead . 8 January 2012 . 5 January 2012 . 8 March 2015 . Time . Jeffrey . Ladd.
  3. News: ‘Moonshine’, by photographer Bertien van Manen . 9 May 2014 . Financial Times . 8 March 2015.
  4. News: Bertien van Manen, Beyond Maps and Atlases, book review. 9 February 2016 . 2 April 2016 . Annalee . Mather . . London .
  5. News: 'Beyond everything': one woman's ghostly odyssey around Ireland. 12 January 2016 . 2 April 2016 . Sean . O'Hagan . Sean O'Hagan (journalist) . . London .
  6. Web site: Docufotograaf Bertien van Manen (1935-2024) was eigenzinnig, avontuurlijk en voor de duvel niet bang . 2024-05-27 . Volkskrant.
  7. Web site: In Memoriam Bertien van Manen . 2024-05-28 . www.bertienvanmanen.nl.
  8. A Bohemian Family Vacation . 9 December 2013 . Fussell . Genevieve . 8 March 2015 . The New Yorker.
  9. Web site: Fotomuseum Winterthur Museum for Photography and Visual Culture Bertien van Manen – A Hundred Summers, A Hundred Winters . 2024-06-02 . Fotomuseum Winterthur . en-US.
  10. https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/TPG%20Exhibition%20List%20-%201971-2021.pdf
  11. Web site: Grrr.nl . Beyond the Image: Bertien van Manen & Friends . 2024-06-02 . www.stedelijk.nl . en.
  12. Web site: FOMU Antwerp Expositions Bertien van Manen - Wish I Were Here . 2024-06-02 . FOMU . fr.
  13. https://www.moma.org/artists/7867#exhibitions
  14. Web site: Objects in the Rijksmuseum . 8 March 2015.
  15. Web site: Bertien Van Manen at FOMU - Fotomuseum Antwerp . 18 February 2022.
  16. Web site: City of Light: Russia at Paris Photo — Top 5 . Calvert Journal . 22 November 2013 . Giulia . Mangione.
  17. Web site: Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur . 2024-06-02 . Fotomuseum Winterthur . en-US.
  18. Web site: 2020-04-19 . Beyond the Image . 2024-06-02 . www.stedelijk.nl . en.
  19. https://www.moma.org/artists/7867
  20. Web site: Results for "Bertien van Manen" - The Metropolitan Museum of Art . 2024-06-02 . www.metmuseum.org . en.
  21. Web site: van Manen, Bertien . 2024-06-02 . SFMOMA . en-US.

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