Hellen van Meene

The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits

Hellen Van Meene, Martin Barnes

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English

Aperture
01 December 2015

Individual photographers; Photographs: portraits

"Over the last 20 years, Hellen van Meene has produced a complex body of work, offering a contemporary take on photographic portraiture. Characterized by her exquisite use of light, formal elegance and palpable psychological tension, her depictions of girls and boys on the cusp of adulthood demonstrate a clear aesthetic lineage to seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Van Meene captures the intimacy in the photographer-subject relationship, bringing out a sense of honesty and vulnerability from within her models and highlighting the beauty of imperfection. She carefully poses her subjects in their environments to emphasize their fragility, adding a palpable tension to the photographs. At the same time, she captures them at deeper, more introspective moments-masterfully moving between the staged nature of the portraits and the real experiences of her subjects. The combination of van Meene's instinctive understanding of the universality of adolescent experience and the highly intimate collaboration between photographer and model makes for powerful portraits that resonate long after viewing. This book brings together more than 250 images, for the most comprehensive presentation of the artist's work to date. Hellen van Meene (born 1972) studied photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of major museums around the world, including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; Brooklyn Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This is her fifth monograph, the others include ""Portraits"" (Aperture, 2004) ""Japan Series,"" ""New Work"" and ""Tout va disparatre."""

By: Hellen Van Meene, Martin Barnes
Imprint: Aperture
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 223mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 1.800kg
ISBN: 9781597113175
ISBN 10: 1597113174
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 December 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Martin Barnes is Senior Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Reviews for Hellen van Meene: The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits

"With a mix of honest, straightforward portraiture and otherworldly scenes, van Meene imbues real life with a haunting yet alluring strangeness.--Jack Crager""American Photo"" (06/15/2015)"