Hunting and fishing

Paul Kooiker
Hunting and fishing
Photographs: Paul Kooiker
Publisher: Basalt Publishers
112 pages
Year: 1999
Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket, 200 x 160 mm. First edition, 1999. Japanese edition. Tiny wear, mostly in very good condition.
Naked women running through woods and meadows is an almost foolproof subject, and in his first solo show in this country, the Dutch photographer Paul Kooiker pursues it with single-minded zeal. Almost all of the women are photographed from behind, seemingly in search of — or pursued by — someone or something. It is hard to tell which, a puzzle that lends an air of poetic mystery to these images. To add to the intrigue, Mr. Kooiker has chosen to give his camera work the look of painting. The soft-focus photos are manipulated in the darkroom, then transformed into digitized images and printed on watercolor paper. The result is a blurry ”painterly” look in which some bodies are easy to discern, others so indistinct that they all but blend with their woodsy backgrounds. There are figures that could be takes from a pornographic movie, and others that suggest the innocence of, say, an anthropological film on tribal folkways. The most assertive (the works are all untitled) is one bathed in golden light in which a woman with a spectacular mane of Pre-Raphaelite hair, yet reminiscent of a Cézanne bather, steps like a wary animal through a field of tall grass; among the ghostliest is an image so deliberately out of focus that the body is almost indistinguishable from dappled areas of sun and shadow. But these seductive male visions are flawed by the suggestion in the show’s sardonic title, ‘Hunting and Fishing’ of women as wild game.







more books by Paul Kooiker
-
Nude Animal Cigar (signed)
by Paul Kooiker
sold -
Hunting and fishing
by Paul Kooiker
sold -
Heaven
by Paul Kooiker
sold -
Room service (SIGNED)
by Paul Kooiker
sold -
Showground
by Paul Kooiker
sold
more books tagged »colors« | >> see all
-
Abstrait
by Hiroaki Suzuki
sold -
Paintings
by Paul Graham
sold -
TAKE IVY
by Teruyoshi Hayashida
sold -
Notte (Association copy)
by Olivo Barbieri
Euro 75 -
Shapes of Light (Signed and Numbered to 300)
by David Nissen
sold -
Die Berliner Zeit
by Rineke Dijkstra
sold
more books tagged »nude« | >> see all
-
Everybody knows this is nowhere
by Ryan McGinley
sold -
Strip-Poker
by Collective
sold -
Bodywork
by Liz Cohen
sold -
Ipy Girl Ipy
by Tad Wakamatsu
sold -
De Openstaande vrouw (Woman Ajar)
by Marcel Mariën
sold -
Ema Nude In Africa
by Masaya Nakamura
sold
more books tagged »out of print « | >> see all
-
CAN’T PAY YOU TO DISAPPEAR (ONLY 200 COPIES)
by Thomas Vandenberghe
sold -
Le Style (ONLY 100 COPIES WITH 2 PRINTS)
by Scheltens & Abbenes
sold -
Particulars (ONE OF THE 25 COPIES WITH A PRINT)
by David Goldblatt
sold -
Rasen Kaigan
by Lieko Shiga
sold -
Soho
by Anders Petersen
Euro 80 -
City Diary
by Anders Petersen
sold
more books tagged »dutch « | >> see all
-
Photo Studio
by Koos Breukel
sold -
Portraits 1970-1993
by Ulay
Euro 30 -
Achter glas
by Johan van der Keuken
sold -
Thuis
by Andrea Stultiens
Euro 30 -
De Unileverfabriek in Delft, Loosdrecht en Vlaardingen (Number...
by Bart Sorgedrager
Euro 300 -
The Wretched skin (DEDICATED)
by Koos Breukel
sold
more books tagged »paul kooiker« | >> see all
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com