Emmy Andriesse: Hidden Lens

by Louise Baring

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Emmy Andriesse (1914 – 1953) is one of the most important 20th century women photographers, best known for her indelible portrayal of Amsterdam’s Hunger Winter of 1944 – 1945, now emblematic of civilian suffering during the Second World War. Andriesse was born into a liberal Dutch Jewish family. She was trained at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague under the aegis of Gerrit Kiljan and Paul Schuitema who pioneered the “New Photography”, based on Bauhaus principles – as well as encouraging students to experiment with its role as a documentary medium. Her rigorous yet sensitive approach enabled her to produce images of unusual poetic power, while her versatile fashion, documentary, portrait and landscape photographs reveal her curiosity about her fellow human beings and sense of beauty in the world around her.
  • ISBN13 9789053307908
  • Publish Date 4 November 2013
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 19 October 2021
  • Publish Country NL
  • Imprint Schilt Publishing b.v.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 208
  • Language English