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Anton
Corbijn, Marlene Dumas - Strippinggirls Texts (English/Dutch) by Anton Corbijn and Marlene Dumas Paperback Size: cm 28 x 23 pp. 56 45 colour-illustrations Stichting Actuele Kunstdocumentatie, Amsterdam ISBN 90-9013735-1 List Price: € 25,8 $ 23 Our Price: € 23 $ 20
Planned,
conceived and realised in collaboration with the painter Marlene
Dumas, STRIPPINGGIRLS constitutes a
particular moment in the artistic career of Anton Corbijn who,
after twenty-five years of photographing musicians and singers, actors
and star personalities, was looking for a project that would lead him
in the direction of something else, something new.
Having
met and become friends with Marlene Dumas, a South African painter
living in Amsterdam, the two came up with an idea for a joint venture:
the striptease dancers whose shows liven up the theatres and clubs of
the Dutch capital.
But for
Corbijn, as for Dumas, STRIPPINGGIRLS
is far more than a simple, immediate transcription or description (photograph
or painting) of erotic incitement dealt with objectively and detachedly.
In fact, the girls who perform and the positions they adopt are but
the point of departure, the raw material for the photographer's (or
painter's) work.
And in
this sense the idea of STRIPPINGGIRLS was
born not out a desire to stimulate discussion concerning the relationship
between photography and painting, but rather out of the curiosity of
the two artists, who would place themselves in front of the same subject
in the same conditions but using different media, and then see the results.
This book, produced in 2000 by the Theatermuseum of Amsterdam, came
out on the occasion of two museum shows which took place in Amsterdam
and Gent. All the works reproduced had been done in Amsterdam between late 1998
and spring 2000.
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