Dutch Details
- Publisher
- Octopus Foundation
- Year
- 1971
- Specifications
- Wide, overly rectangular format, bound along the top edge with gatefold leaves
4 1/4 x 15 in (11 x 38 cm) closed; gatefolds open to nearly 30 inches
116 illustrations
Commissioned by the Groninger Museum for Sonsbeek 71
Most of the print run was accidentally destroyed, making it the rarest of the artist's self-published books
Traditional bridges and small-town buildings in a handful of communities in the northern Netherlands are photographed with a hand-held camera, the bridges themselves used as the walkway from which each picture was taken. The unusual, elongated gatefold format forces the images into a continuous horizontal sweep, echoing the flat, waterlogged terrain the pictures describe.