Ruud Van Empel - Photoworks 1995-2010

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Title

Ruud Van Empel - Photoworks 1995-2010
2354.POR.EMPEL

Subject

Conceptual

Description

Exhibition catalogue from the Groninger Museum on the works of Ruud van Empel (b. 1958). Van Empel has developed a unique working method within digital photography. The images he compiles display a paradisiacal world that never existed in the form shown. This world is populated by children and dreamy adolescents as a personification of innocence, which is one of the most important themes of Van Empel's work. But innocence is always vulnerable, and the longing for paradise is an all-too-human illusion that will be disturbed sooner or later. From hundreds of fragments adopted from digital photos, Van Empel compiles new images that seem very life-like and realistic, but also conjure up a world that has never existed. Essays by Deborah Klochko, Oscar van den Boogaard, and Ruud Schenk.

Creator

Ruud Van Empel

Publisher

PhotoWorks International

Date

01/08/2011

Contributor

Admin

Rights

All rights reserved

Format

Hardcover, 24.5 x 2 x 30 cm

Language

English

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Dimensions

24.5 x 2 x 30 cm

Number of Pages

152

Designer

Ruud Van Empel

Editor

Anneke Pijnappel

Printer

Drukkerij Robstolk, Amsterdam, NL

ISBN

978-9081383226

Website

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/publication/Ruud-Van-Empel%3A-25-years-of-photo-works%2C-1995-2020--701320b64b5dcc438ff4c18892f2dfcf

Where to buy

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9789081383226/Ruud-Empel-photoworks-1995-2010-Klochko-9081383221/plp

Collection

Citation

Ruud Van Empel, “Ruud Van Empel - Photoworks 1995-2010,” Photobook Cafe Photobook Collection, accessed August 30, 2026, https://www.photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/items/show/2354.

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