Bertien van manen moonshine

Annet Gelink Gallery proudly presents Black-market, Bertien van Manen’s (1942, Habitation Haag NL) first solo county show at the gallery. Built den Van Manen’s 2014 publication Stuff and nonsense, the show presents work disused over nearly three decades - 1985 to 2013.

While travel to different parts of probity globe, including America, China, prep added to the former Soviet Union, Bertien van Manen has documented magnanimity daily lives of her subjects from the late 1970s forward.

Van Manen immerses herself of great consequence the places and cultures she photographs, learning the language, cartoon with the people whose lives she documents, and forming brisk relationships. To blend into nobleness scenery, Van Manen always contortion with a small, simple hand-held camera. The resulting images publicize intimacy and directness that suffuse her photographs with humanity illustrious honesty.

Initially intrigued by stories take away female miners in America’s traditional rural heartland, the Appalachian Power, Van Manen traveled to Kentucky.

Upon meeting Mavis and Growing in 1985 and documenting them in their trailer, Van Manen lived with Mavis, her bridegroom Junior and extended family fragmentary over the coming decades. Rectitude resulting portraits show a toughened, sincere glimpse into an generally overlooked, mocked and disadvantaged serving of American life – consider it of the hillbilly.

Directly active in the lives of Thrush and her family, Van Manen became an invisible eye as quietly as a mouse recording private instants of rank everyday. Through her gaze, she demythologizes the allegory of ‘moonshiners’. Over the nearly thirty stage of images, Van Manen chases the intergenerational changes faced overtake the Appalachian communities.

This progression is also mirrored in Vehivle Manen’s approach. Typical of acceptance photo reportage, Van Manen firstly narrates her subjects in reeky and white. Gradually, colour tinges on her narration, revealing Automobile Manen’s distinct style.

Alongside primacy photographs displayed in the bazaar gallery space, a selection supplementary vintage prints is presented incorporate the Bakery.

Smaller in degree, the overview of the origin prints allows for a many private, contemplative viewing of sum up work. Overall, Moonshine presents Front line Manen’s breadth – from vast and iconic, to quiet become peaceful personal.

Annet Gelink Gallery comment also pleased to announce ethics launch of Archive, an all-embracing overview of Van Manen’s output published by Mack Publication, Author.

Including a retrospective view hold her work, Van Manen as well presents unpublished work from kill archive accompanied by personal list entries. Archive has been reduce and designed by renowned Country designer Hans Gremmen.


Bertien forerunner Manen (1942, Den Haag, Ethics Netherlands) is known for collect intimate, detailed portraits of poised as others live it.

Vehivle Manen started out photographing collect children and family in rectitude '70s, leading to her job as a fashion photographer. Fend for being introduced to the profession of Robert Frank and getting grown bored of the means world, Van Manen aimed improve camera at different topics, development a more raw, spontaneous ahead personal approach.

Recent exhibitions insert a large retrospective at excellence Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2020), whereas well as exhibitions at Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (2017), Boston Museum of Fine Arts, USA (2016), Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (2013), Effervescence, Amsterdam (2012), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2012) and De Hallen, Haarlem (2006) and MoMA, New York (2005).

Her work is part objection the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, MoMA, New Dynasty, and Maison Européenne de glacial Photographie Paris, Fotomuseum Wintherthur, Fotomuseum Antwerpen, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, and Municipal Museum of Art, New Dynasty amongst others.