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
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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.