Provides a picture of developments, events, phenomena and people in the photography of the Netherlands starting from about 1840 and related to the sociological, economic, social, technological and cultural context of their time. It is arranged thematically around 10 broad concepts. It covers topics that are also inter-related.
Fake news about the past is fake history.Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms?Did medieval people think the world was flat?Did Napoleon shoot the nose off the Sphinx?*Spoiler Alert* The answer to all those questions is no.From the famous quote 'Let them eat cake' - mistakenly attributed to Marie Antoinette - to the apoc[Bokinfo].
The book focuses particularly on Zadkine's bond with the Netherlands, where his collectors and those who commissioned his work often counted as his friends.