currently on display at the department (http://www.thedepartment.ca/)
excerpt from his memoirs..
"My own long and passionate love affair with Provence was born in Cannes in the summer of 1951, when another Dutchman and I formed a duo of traveling musicians, playing our guitars and singing all kinds of songs in a great variety of places for people of different nationalities and social backgrounds. We were musicians, ambulants, wandering minstrels, true bohemians living a life of intense exploration and great diversity that often led to extraordinary situations. We continued to perform with great success for several summers until well into the 1960s. During the years of our Provence adventures, I made thousands of black-and-white photographs of numerous colourful characters from many walks of life. I observed these people while they lived their lives on the streets and the beaches, in the bars and at the bullfights and the pétanque fields, when embracing each other or sleeping in the heat of the day, just being themselves.
Working in the photographic perspective called humanistic reportage, I put together a wide-ranging collection of candid, revealing portraits that are an original, joyous, thought-provoking, but above all honest historical documentary record of the lively spirit of those times.
With these pictures I celebrate the enchanting heart of the land of glorious light and present a loving look at the people of captivating Provence, the playground of Southern France."
"My own long and passionate love affair with Provence was born in Cannes in the summer of 1951, when another Dutchman and I formed a duo of traveling musicians, playing our guitars and singing all kinds of songs in a great variety of places for people of different nationalities and social backgrounds. We were musicians, ambulants, wandering minstrels, true bohemians living a life of intense exploration and great diversity that often led to extraordinary situations. We continued to perform with great success for several summers until well into the 1960s. During the years of our Provence adventures, I made thousands of black-and-white photographs of numerous colourful characters from many walks of life. I observed these people while they lived their lives on the streets and the beaches, in the bars and at the bullfights and the pétanque fields, when embracing each other or sleeping in the heat of the day, just being themselves.
Working in the photographic perspective called humanistic reportage, I put together a wide-ranging collection of candid, revealing portraits that are an original, joyous, thought-provoking, but above all honest historical documentary record of the lively spirit of those times.
With these pictures I celebrate the enchanting heart of the land of glorious light and present a loving look at the people of captivating Provence, the playground of Southern France."
picasso
il n'est rien de réel que le rêve et l'amour
nothing is real but dreams and love
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