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Artist Galleries:
ICM - Photography for
Collectors, Haarlem(NL); phone
+31235519093; email
fr.troost@wxs.nl
Fotokabinet, The Hague(NL);
phone +31702202984; email
info@fotokabinet.nl...
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Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
The Corcoran Museum of Art,
Washington D.C.(USA)
Musée de l'Élysée,
Lausanne(CH)
Museet for Fotokunst,
Odense(DK)
Musée de la Photographie,
Charleroi(B)
Museum of London, London(GB)
Musée Français de la
Photographie, Bièvres(F)
Musée Carnavalet, Paris(F)
Bibliothè...
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Commissions:
Municipality of Zoetermeer
(NL): "New housing projects"
1972
ICIM B.V., Rijswijk (NL):
"Infrastructure and automation
in the landscape" 1990
The Hague Municipal Archive:
"The Hague's Periphery" 2001
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Artist Statement for Tom Stappers
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Although I have covered a wide range of subjects through the years, from avantgarde jazz to Egypt and from house parties to gypsies, I am basically a street photographer. My main subject is "people in their social environment", and I consider Garry Winogrand's work to be the purest form of this style of contemporary personalized documentary. It has had a decisive influence on my personal approach and and still has while subjects may change and my style keeps evolving over the years.
STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
Street photography is very often a completely misunderstood categorization, as many portfolios and blogs about streets and buildings under that heading testify. Real street photography is, however, concerned with people in their daily (often urban) surroundings. This style of photography is fast and intuitive, related to documentary photography, but highly individualized.
MY BEST IMAGES
As my best images I consider those that show a situation which is of psychologic or sociologic interest, enigmatic rather than explanatory, and I am at the same time aiming at certain iconic aesthetics. My belief is not that "less is more", since "more is more" seems more logical, and allows me to fill my pictures with lots of visual information, often to the point where chaos threatens. It is exciting to fill the frame with what I find and to suggest relations between all of these elements. All of this is decided by intuition, in split seconds and in real-life situations. I am aware that by the choices I make in my photography I am showing a selective, personal reality which is not necessarily objective, but my view on life, no less.
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