Hellen van Meene : The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits │Introduction by Martin Barnes , By (photographer) Hellen van Meene , Text by Oscar van den Boogaard

 

Over the last twenty years, Hellen van Meene has produced a complex body of work, offering a contemporary take on photographic portraiture. Characterized by her exquisite use of light, formal elegance, and palpable psychological tension, her depictions of girls and boys on the cusp of adulthood demonstrate a clear aesthetic lineage to seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Van Meene captures the intimacy in the photographer/subject relationship, bringing out a sense of honesty and vulnerability from within her models and highlighting the beauty of imperfection. She carefully poses her subjects in their environments to emphasize their fragility, adding a palpable tension to the photographs. At the same time, she captures them at deeper, more introspective moments-masterfully moving between the staged nature of the portraits and the real experiences of her subjects. The combination of van Meene's instinctive understanding of the universality of adolescent experience and the highly intimate collaboration between photographer and model makes for powerful portraits that resonate long after viewing. This book brings together more than 250 images, for the most comprehensive presentation of the artist's work to date.

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Product details

Format Hardback | 272 pages
Dimensions 223 x 280 x 33.02mm | 1,800g
Publication date 25 Aug 2015
Publisher aperture
Publication City/Country New York, United States
Language English
Illustrations note Illustrated in colour throughout
ISBN10 1597113174
ISBN13 9781597113175
Bestsellers rank 495,118

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