Roots
With texts by Harry Gruyaert and Dimitri Verhulst
Publisher: Editions Xavier Barral
Language: English and French
Medium: Hardcover
Size: 21,6 x 29 cm
Pages: 200
New revised edition 2018, signed by the artist
With over twenty new photographs, this revised edition of Roots (initially published in 2012 and quickly out of print) immerses us in the Belgium of the 1970s and 1980s. From the first black and white photographs to the revelation of colour, this publication explores the Belgian photographer’s singular, almost expressionistic, universe.
In a very personal text, accompanying his photographs, Harry Gruyaert comments on his relationship to Belgium. While an essay by the Belgium writer Dimitri Verhulst makes us truly live these photographs from the inside.
Survey show at the FoMu, Antwerp, March 9th - June 10th, 2018
Originally dreaming of becoming a film director, Gruyaert studied at the School of Film and Photography in Brussels from 1959 to 1962. ...Read more