Hans Aarsman – preview
Posted by Alexander Klopping on October 20, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Hans Aarsman is a former photographer, who worked as a photo journalist at Dutch newspaper Trouw and published a series of books. In 1989 he published the book “Hollandse Taferelen” (Dutch scenes). Aarsman traveled through Holland with his camper for a year, and took pictures of landscapes from the roof of his camper. After 1989 he published three more photo books, before he left photography. He now writes about photography, a.o. for the Volkskrant. In 1993 he was awarded with the Maria Austria award.
The writer/photographer
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[...] Hans Aarsman’s talk at TEDxAmsterdam was titled “From pretty to ugly and back again; mysterious ways of beauty in photography” and the audience judged it one of the highlights of the day. Surprising, insightful and at times hilarious, Aarsman shows different concepts of beauty in photography, and suggests that the only real photographic beauty is to be found in pictures that were made without such a goal in mind. [...]