Leven onder het luchtruim
Life below the sky
2024 | Amsterdam Airport Schiphol has a firm grip on its surroundings. How does that manifest itself? An exploration in words and images made with Tijs van den Boomen (writer/researcher).
Groot-Amsterdam
Greater Amsterdam
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2020 | A survey of the metropolitean area of Amsterdam.
After Baldus
Travels in a wounded landscape
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2017 | After Baldus is a collaboration project with Cary Markerink and Alison Nordstrom inspired by an 1855 album by E.Baldus.
Soundhorn 2
Markering Ontbreekt
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2013 | Sound Horn is the comparison with Rochester, NY in the USA [see Sound Horn 1]. Metropolitan Twente has a glorious industrious past but is still struggling with the consequences of the disappearance of the textile and manufacturing industry.
Sound Horn 1
Proceed with caution
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2011 | Rochester, NY was a prosperous city not so long ago when everything revolved around the photography industry. Kodak was the market leader but choked on digital photography. The city remained orphaned.
Nagele revisited
A modernist village in the polder
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2006 | Nagele [revisited] is an update of the book Nagele NOP from 1988. How vital is the village that renowned Dutch architects and urban planners designed at the end of the fifties of the last century? A collaboration project with Cary Markerink and Warna Oosterbaan.
Territorium
Renovation of the Bijlmermeer
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2003 | The Bijlmermeer, a modernist houding experiment was not allowed to grow up. Twenty years after completion, the demolition began and a different blueprint replaced it. Territory is the search for the why behind that transformation. Recorded by a resident.
Periferie | Periphery
The edge of town
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2003 | Periphery covers three (former) horticultural areas on the outskirts of three cities. The identity of these generic landscapes is reflected in the details.
Atlas of change
Rearranging the Netherlands
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2000 | In this atlas, terms from policy documents are used for a search for the places that match the used terminology used: a survey of the Dutch policy landscape.
Snelweg
Highways in the Netherlands
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1996 | Snelweg is a collaboration project with Cary Markerink and Tracy Metz about the forgotten landscape called the highway.
Hollandse interieurs
Dutch interiors
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1993 | As a resident in the Netherlands you cannot do much about the living environment due to all the regulations, but there is great freedom indoors. What does that freedom provide and what does that tell us about identity and diversity?
Nagele NOP
A modernistic farm town
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1988 | Nagele is a model village, both through its architecture and through the process of selecting the original inhabitants. Only the world changes, what is the situation for 30 years after completion. A collaboration project with Cary Markerink and Anneke van Veen.
Pays de Bray
The landscape of Madame Bovary
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1982-1985 | Gustave Flaubert described precisely the landscape where his Emma Bovary experienced her adventures.
Real Urbanism
Decisive Interventions
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2018 | Celebrated urban development expert Ton Schaap and ten colleagues analyze vital parts of cities. From Avenida Paulista in Sao Paulo to the Victoria Embankment in London.
Groot-Saeftinghe
Border area in transformation
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2018 | The Hedwigepolder and the polders near the port of Antwerp will change unrecognizable. What does that landscape look like before the intervations?
IJsselmeer gebied
A spatial perspective
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2018 | The book by urban planner Frits Palmboom contains 23 images of the varied coastal landscape of the IJsselmeer.
Guideline
Landscape & Cultural History
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2018 | The province of Noord-Holland has developed an online tool to inform its citizens about the cultural-historical and landscape qualities of the North Holland landscape.
Ruimte
On the eve of new spatial developments
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2015 | In the nineties of the last century, two government policy papers with blueprints for the Netherlands in 2015 became law. Ruimte is a journey along a number of completed projects which were announced in these documents.
Seductive Usable Solid
Infrastructure and landscape
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2015 | Twenty photographs om the relation between infrastructure and environment in Noord-Holland.
Energielandschappen
Landscape and renewable energy
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2014 | An expedition to observe the first visible signs in the Dutch landscape of the energy transition.
Ons Erf
Identity, heritage and cultural dynamics
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2014 | For the institute for scientific research NWO, journalist and sociologist Warna Oosterbaan made a report and analysis on research into Dutch identity. In about twenty photos I explain the relationship between investigations and expressions of identity as they are visible in our environment.
Atlas Nieuwe Steden
Atlas of New Towns
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2012 | Atlas nieuwe steden is about the the new towns, that the Dutch government built near existing cities. How did that work out?
Huis in Frankrijk
House in France
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2010 | Why do so many Dutch people buy a house on the French countryside? A search for the answer together with Sake Elzinga and Tracy Metz.
Er komt iets van de grond
Cultural landscapes
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2009 | For Architerctuur Lokaal
I photographed twenty cultural landscapes in the Netherlands.
NRC Handelsblad | Het Binnenhuis
Dutch interiors II
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2008-2010 | As a follow-up to the series of interiors made for the Achterpagina from 1994, I made a new series together with Arjen Ribbens with houses of designers, harbor barons, art collecting dentists and other countrymen.
Amsterdam
Waterfront
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2008 | In FORUM, urban planner Ton Schaap describes the design history of part of the formal eastern port area of Amsterdam. Theo Baart photographed regularly in that area between 1983 and 2008.
Building site Enschede
A city recreates itself
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2007 | Just before the financial crises of autumn 2007, this book was published about the city of Enschede, where new plans were made for the revitalization of this worn-out industrial city.
Achterland - Voorland
The Frisian landscape
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2005 |Achterland-Voorland is about the the temptation of rurality. It depicts the difference with the crowded Randstad and the attractionof the 'empty countryside'.
Binnen bij boeren
Living and working in historic farms
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2003 | Commissioned by the then Rijksdienst Monumentenzorg (now RCE), Theo Baart photographed at twenty historic farms that were still in operation at that time.
Lost locations
Hiroshima and Bruges
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2002 | Bruges was the European Capital of Culture in 2002. The photos made for European Eyes On Japan were combined with work made in Bruges.
European Eyes on Japan
Hiroshima
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2001 | Every year, the EU - Japan Fest invites one or two photographers to shoot in a Japanese province. In 2000 Theo Baart photographed in the Hiroshima prefecture.
Postwar Housing in the Netherlands
Rijksmuseum commission
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1985 | Every year since 1975, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam has commissioned one or two photographers to portray a theme that is expected to be interesting for future generations: contemporary visual historiography.
Amsterdam cemeteries
A place of reflection
1984 | Commissioned by the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts Theo Baart photographed at burial places in the city.
Avenue
Landscapes and writers
1984-1989 |Between 1984 and 1989, together with poet and writer Willem van Toorn, I made four reports for writers and their landscapes for AVENUE magazine.