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At the beginning of 2008, the list of richest Russians contained 101 billionaires; a magical number that for the time being will not be matched.

In the morning mist, the barely visible figure of a woman. As if on a tight rope, she walks along the edges of a stone pool, one step at a time.

Text by Bill Kouwenhoven - German, English, French

Intriguing and desolate images of Tokyo by the Portuguese photographer Patrícia Almeida(1970).

The latest image from Marcel van der Vlugt’s series ‘A New Day’ bears the title ‘New Lilith’. The photo is a remake of the painting Lilith by British pre-Raphaelite painter John Collier (1850-1934). According to Apocryphal scripture, Lilith was Adam’s first wife. She refused to subdue him and -when he tried to force her- she fled from paradise.

'Phantom City' is constructed as a novel which tells the story of a phantom city: a place that everybody recognizes but no one knows.

"The seventies. Hectic, exciting, creative. Constantly reinventing itself, full of self-confidence. Sometimes tiresome, but never for long. I know, because I was there. As a photographer mainly, but also as a restless young man and a music lover."
Gijsbert Hanekroot

In this book the photographer Patrícia Almeida takes us on a summer holiday to the beach. Portobello, generic name evoking a vague Latin exoticism, a city or a region (Italian? Spanish? Portuguese? Brazilian? Mexican?), a hotel, a night club or a colorful cocktail on a list of drinks.

On the basis of its personal memories, photographer Michael Anhalt goes in search of his past. At the age of seven, his parents tried to flee Eastern Germany with a self-built plane.

Teenage mothers are often seen as irresponsible citizens. Pure, at Amsterdam's Melkweg, refutes this stereotype with images of 75 mothers between the ages of 16 and 23 taken by photographer Melanie Rijkers, aka MeRey.

From the photographer who brought you wrestlers, now: sumo wrestlers. Charles Fréger has supersized his life’s work with this large book of larger-format portraits of...substantially larger subjects.

A Rotterdam muralist recalls that his in-house training advocated a memorable criterion of quality: “Far form beautiful, but beautiful from afar.”

Willy DeVille through the eyes of Patricia Steur

Dutch photographer, Marcel van der Vlugt, has a perfect sense of beauty and is happy to share it with the larger public. His new photo album, published by D’jonge Hond compiles all his favorite works!

Starting in 1970, Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski created hundreds of sequences (a sequence is a series of closely connected photographs of at least two, and as many as seven, nine or even 19).

Beyond Photography is a lively book about Dutch and Belgian photo art from 1980 to the present, dealing with photography in which imagination and fantasy play the leading role.

Many think publishing a new photo magazine in this fast developing digital world is equal to committing suicide. Besides a large number of exhibitions and book publications, photo logs and photo news websites pop up by the dozen. Every month you’ll discover new initiatives in the area of photography. A lot to react to and a lot to form an opinion about. Despite this enormous amount, we detect an underexposed area in this still expanding field.

According to Eric Min in his accompanying text, 'It is not clear if the figures in Doolaard's photographs are models or actors, just people or characters from the photographer's dreams. The voiceless figures in these photographs – each time one figure, prisoned in the familiar rectangle of the picture – look back, or away. They emerge from their underworld of grainy grey and deep black, as in a wash drawing...”

For a photographer a project has come full circle if it ends with an exhibition. And it’s even more complete when it culminates in a photo book. Many photographers consider a book the most important medium for sharing their vision with the viewer. It’s the ideal way to show their work to the world. Moreover, compared to other popular stages for photographers such as exhibitions, magazines and the internet, the photo book is the most timeless document. A reference work with an unlimited expiration date that can be compiled and designed according to one’s own insight.

The Dutch photographer Koen Wessing [b. Amsterdam, 1942] visited China four times. In 2006 his trip took him to Shanghai, Beijing and Datong, the ‘pit coal capital of China’, among other places, and in 2007 to Chongqing, Tibet and Kashgar, the cultural capital of the 8.3 million member Uigur nation. About two decades before, in 1985 and 1986, he had also travelled to the Middle Kingdom.

2005 was extremely busy and eventful, resulting in many new initiatives. Besides the introduction of GUP1, a fantastic photography festival in Amsterdam’s Olympic Stadium, a new photography award and the red-hot HUP Gallery; all were received with the same enthusiasm that inspired their origin - a passion for photography.

text: Philippe Piguet and Alan Warner

With the unique exhibitions of Rineke Dijkstra in the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Cartier Bresson in FOAM, and Loretta Lux in Photo Museum The Hague, the Netherlands started the year brilliantly when it comes to photography. In addition to the named exhibitions, Holland also hosted recently the World Press Photo of the Year 2005 Election. Not everyone was overly enthusiastic about the winning image, featured in New(s).

In the autumn of 1932 this Budapest-born photographer came from Berlin to The Netherlands, and spent the rest of her life there. Through her mother-in-law, painter Charley Toorop, she was introduced to a circle of avant-garde artists, painters, architects and filmmakers. She immediately began receiving commissions within this milieu. Her approach to photography – the New Objectivity, which she had mastered in Berlin – became her passport to the circle. In addition to the familiar high points of her oeuvre, this book contains a large number of magnificent, unfamiliar, never before published or shown works. Includes biography of Eva Besnyö [1910-2003].

We are not even halfway yet, and already we can conclude that 2006 is an unparalleled year in the Dutch history of photography. With crowd-pulling exhibitions of international allure, record proceeds at auctions, young talents breaking through, new photography initiatives such as publishers, galleries and festivals and a rising number of enrolments at photo academies photography in the Netherlands is doing very well.

Responsive and inventive, the Prague photographers Rudo Prekop, Vasil Stanko and Miro Svolik play a game with reality in front of the camera.

It will come as no surprise to many of our readers that we are devoting this edition of GUP to Japan. Anyone that knows a little bit about Japanese photography will think of Araki or Moriyama. We did too. In GUP#5 you will find portfolios with strong classic images and beautiful new work as well as an interview with the great artist Moriyama himself.

Foto's van vijftig / Ingeborg Th. Leijerzapf

Photography has never been more accessible. Often amateurs produce unique images with miniscule pocket cameras and mobile phones, quicker than professional photographers. This might be why some professionals seek refuge by digitally manipulating their work, like Lebanese Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj recently did. Truth in a photograph seems increasingly harder to discover.

On the occasion of the retirement of Ingeborg Leijerzapf after 35 years as curator of the Prentenkabinet at the University Library at Leiden, fifty authors, among them colleagues, former students, curators, historians and journalists, each enthusiastically chose a photograph from the holdings of the Prentenkabinet.

Portraits, interiors, landscapes. Three genres that gave Dutch painters their name and fame. Their refined technique, use of light and perspective, and the attention to detail turned Rembrandt, Hals, Vermeer, Van Ruisdael and Steen into Dutch Masters. Portraits, interiors and landscapes also provide photography with a rich source of inspiration and a rewarding scope for working. So now is the time for a Dutch Masters issue, with many pages allotted to masterpieces by Dutch photographers working in the Netherlands or abroad.

Go Black

Rotterdam, the largest city in the Netherlands, industrial city, major port. Melting pot of cultures, social injustice and crime, but also a city of creativity, innovation and progress. All this makes Rotterdam a city with a wealth of material for photography. And the city on the Maas river knows it. From Hofplein to Kuip, from the port to the station, from the Euromast to the Van Nelle factory, and soon from the Witte de Withstraat to the Kop van Zuid as well.

GUP 11: The New Dutch Heroes Issue
GUP 12: The Amsterdam issue
GUP 13: The Belgium issue
GUP 14: The Paparazzi Issue

Constant innovation, quality control, exclusivity and timelessness: four characteristics that every fashion brand would like to espouse. And magazines strive for pretty much the same things. We have grown step-by-step over the past few publications. Not just editorially, but also in actual size: at the start of GUP’s second year we gained a few extra centimetres. High quality images remain most important to us.

GUP 15: The Graduates Issue
GUP 16: The Lowlands Special
GUP 17: The What We Like Issue
GUP 18: The Fashion Issue II

Everyone who works in the Sophia Children's Hospital in Rotterdam wants life for the children to go on as normally as possibel. Conversely the Hospital wants to show what takes place on the inside of this house. This is how the idea for this book arose.

Jazz Is, Jazz Was. Take a look from the inside at the day-to-day life of jazzman Benjamin Herman.

Gerald Cyrus is a documentary photographer living in Philadelphia PA. Between 1994 and 2005 he frequented the small jazz nightclubs in Harlem, New york to photograph the vibrant music scene in that historic neighbourhood.

Mystery, sexuality, decadence, deep layers of sorrow, raw tenderness and obscure romance, desire and more desire, death versus life, bestial lusts: they are all elements of the photographic wordks of Cornelie Tollens. Hard Love is an anthology from Cornelie Tollens’ oeuvre.

Strandcabines

The third instalment of Holland zonder Haast contains about eighty black and white photographs in duotone, made in The Netherlands by Sem Presser.

Wapke Feenstra has visited, from July 27 untill August 22, 2007, fourteen locations which locals nominateted as The Best Place and has marked them with her text cart.

Maria Austria (b. Karlsbad, 1915) arrived in Amsterdam in the 1930s as an exile photographer, became involved in the resistance during the war years, and between 1945 and her sudden death in 1975 built up a large photographic oeuvre.

Maarten Tromp (Amsterdam, 1980) graduated in 2005 from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. In his works, he explores his own position as a photographer and film maker. The images often reveal his presence and the influence of the camera. His open and direct approach creates startling and intimate impressions. He himself becomes part of the story.

Carel Blazer started working as a commercial photographer in Amsterdam in 1935.

The photojournalist Sem Presser (1917-1986) literally took the whole world as the field for his endeavours. He produced reports from the South Pole, former Dutch New Guinea, Korea, the United States, Suriname, Africa and a host of other places. But he also worked closer to home, in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France. With subtle humour and an eye for sometimes absurd details, he recorded his fellow man. Street scenes become almost surreal tableaux vivants. Text H.J.A. Hofland (English/Dutch)

Copies: 50, numbered and signed

After his brother made a photo album of his trip to Indonesia, Bas Fontein found remains of his photographs in the wastebasket.

As a follow-up to his series on the pigeons of Dam Square in Amsterdam, which was purchased in its entirety by the Groningen Museum, the Amsterdam photographer Paul Fleming has immersed himself in the world of another animal species that is closer to man: dogs.

Together with the Van Gogh Museum d’jonge Hond Publishers published the book Ik, Ophelia.

Sufferers of alopecia areata, an untreatable disease causing unexpected hair loss, faced the cameras of nine photographers for the exhibition at Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam.

India is a blind, white tiger from a sanctuary in Indiana in the United States.

Kemps uses the colour of the title as a symbol for a stratum of outward appearances in our western world (and elsewhere) - the “ violet stratum” which can be defined by a series of key words such as extravagance, trendiness, artificiality, fleetingness, decadence, vanity, squandering, but also kitsch, bad taste, coquetry and frumpiness.

Over the past two decades, Jimmy Katz has established himself as probably the preeminent jazz photographer of his generation, capturing the recent New York jazz scene with the same artistry, passion and deep knowledge of the music as past masters like Francis Woolf, William Claxton and Herman Leonard.

These final selections from the photographic dictionary by Philip Mechanicus provide us with a summary of fifty years of photographic observation by an intractable photographer.

William Ropp summons up a strange and haunting world through the lens of his art, but it is not an altogether unfamiliar one in spite of his showing us people and things we have never before seen.

In Luxembourg, Charles Fréger had the opportunity of carrying out one of the most important of his "Photographic and Uniform Portraits" series, the generic title of the project in which he has engaged since 1999 in Europe and elsewhere throughout the world, based on the dress code and the uniform.

“Sometimes it is as if everything in these pictures was moving but has come to a sudden halt. Or as if someone threw a handful of objects in the air, like in a children's game, and they landed in an unexpected way – waiting for Bert Danckaert to turn up to photograph them.

Nico van der Stam is undoubtedly the greatest unknown Dutch pop photographer of the 1960s and early 1970s.

MC1R is the gene partly responsible for red hair. It is probably tens of thousands of years old and is a distinctly weak gene that always comes off worst. So redheads are gradually declining in number. That was Hanne van der Woude’s main reason for initiating this project.