The Devil Drives and Other True Stories

Jasper de Beijer
9789056625122 / 9056625128
The Devil Drives and Other True Stories

The Devil Drives and Other True Stories

Jasper de Beijer
9789056625122 / 9056625128
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Edition Paperback , 112 Pages
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Publisher's description

This first overview of the work of the promising young Dutch artist Jasper de Beijer finds him driven by a fascination with historic source materials. The colonial past, in which confrontations between worlds and cultures were pivotal, emerges in his 2004 photo series Outpost, which re-creates period photographs of the Dutch presence in Indonesia. The Devil Drives (2005) riffs on the experiences of a nineteenth-century explorer, and Cahutchu (2005) on a real tropical gold-rush-style town that grew from nothing to a city at the start of the twentieth century, driven by the massive international demand for rubber. The city of Cahutchu disappeared almost as quickly, swallowed back up by the jungle, but De Beijer has studied photographs, drawings, etchings and engravings documenting the clearing of the jungle and the building of grand estates, and created a tribute in a series of computer-generated scale models. De Beijer brings, very literally, a new dimension to his subjects, reincorporating them physically, and then taking their picture once more.

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Book title The Devil Drives and Other True Stories
Photographer Jasper de Beijer
ISBN 10 9056625128 / 90-5662-512-8       
ISBN 13 9789056625122 / 978-90-5662-512-2
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Publish date Aug 2006
Book format Paperback
Pages 112 Pages
Dimensions 17,25 x 24,25 cm / 6.75 x 9.5 inches

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