The oldest thing : & 7 poems / Ruth van Beek ; Basje Boer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beek, Ruth van, 1977- photographer.

Contributor:

Boer, Basje, 1980- contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beek, Ruth van, 1977-.

Beek, Ruth van.

Photography, Artistic.

art photography.

Genre:

photobooks.

Photobooks.

Physical Description:

511 pages : numerous illustrations (chiefly color) ; 17 cm

Other Title:

Ruth van Beek : the oldest thing ; & 7 poems by Basje Boer

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Van Zoetendaal, [2023]

Summary:

"'My mother left me three binders with carefully copied recipes and pasted pictures. I never made any of these recipes. I kept them for other reasons. It is the care that moves me, the index, the regular handwriting, the discolored pages. What does a mother leave behind? How do you add value to the daily activities of a household? My mother died when I was fifteen. I never knew her as a woman. This has ensured me that she has always remained a mother figure. The things I learned from her were old fashioned mother-daughter things; cooking, knitting, gardening. She went to a household school and was a patient craftswoman. This is probably where my fascination with manuals and books about needlework and the household started. I learned a lot from her, but not everything. And in that incompleteness lies a valuable resource for me. Like a warm memory that you can look back on, but which is at the same time closed off and distorted by the elapsed time. That open end, the incompleteness, is in all my work.' Ruth van Beek"--back cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references (page 511).

Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. 2023 PhotoBook of the Year Shortlist.

ISBN:

9789072532565

9072532562

OCLC:

1396100328

Publisher Number:

9789072532565