Faces of Valkenburg
PHOTOGRAPHY
Hans Hoenjet
text Hans Hoenjet
Most photo books about Valkenburg are of a nostalgic nature or are used for city promotion. They are full of slick pictures of cultural-historical monuments, folklore and hilly landscapes. In short, they show an idealized Valkenburg. Gezichten van Valkenburg (Faces of Valkenburg) has a different perspective. More than a hundred expressive photos provide a surprising and unadorned picture of mass tourism and the quiet, hidden side of Valkenburg between 1949 and 1989. The result is a book about a turbulent tourist town that keeps reinventing itself.
Hans Hoenjet (1953) selected the photos and wrote the connecting texts. He grew up in Valkenburg and published on art & literature in De Volkskrant, NRC Handelsblad and HP/DeTijd. In addition, several books were published by him and he was a teacher of Dutch at a university of applied sciences.
With photos by Cas Oorthuys, Peter Martens, Frits Widdershoven, Henk Blansjaar, Ad Windig and many others.
Dutch format 228 x 285 mm size 160 pages hardcover
design Lecturis release November
NUR 653 ISBN 978-94-6226-424-3 € 29,95
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