Steef Zoetmulder
Subtitle: subjective photography 1940-1960
By: [voorwoord, Thomas Buchsteiner ; inleiding, Adriaan Elligens].
Publisher: Uitgeverij Voetnoot
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Format: HC
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Zoetmulder, Steef, 1911-  -- Exhibitions.; Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions.
First sentence: 'Art is art-as-art, and everything else is everything else,' American purist painter Ad Reinhardt once said. 'Photography is photography-as-photography, and everything else is everything else'. This is something you could say about the photography of Steef Zoetmulder, though he is in no sense a photographic purist. - Thomas Buchsteiner
Description: About Subjective Photography: His entire oeuvre bears witness to a preference for decorative images with a tendency towards abstraction....(Zoetmulder) preferred to experiment in the studio. He would combine various shapes (angular, round, hard or soft) with vases, glassware or other objects to form still life arrangements. Occasionally he combined portraits with shapes or objects. The appearance of the photographs was determined by the effects of the linear patterns, the lighting and the suggestive perspective. His penchant for photo-montage is related to this kind of work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-141).
English and Dutch.
Table of contents: pagenum: 4
title: Preface by Thomas Buchsteiner; pagenum: 6
title: Introduction by Adriaan Elligens; pagenum: 25
title: Portraits/Nudes; pagenum: 53
title: Still Lifes; pagenum: 85
title: Sculpture; pagenum: 97
title: Commissioned Work; pagenum: 117
title: Architecture; pagenum: 127
title: Self Portraits; pagenum: 140
title: biographie (Untranslated); pagenum: 140
title: bibliography; pagenum: 144
title: Credits