A few months ago I joined the Urban Photo Collective in Amsterdam. This collective is an organisation in various Dutch cities and they come together once a month to practice the Urban Photography. The theme of this month actually was minimalism, but especially for the Amsterdam section it was changed to Breitner.
Breitner was a Dutch painter/photographer who lived in Amsterdam around 1890 and who mainly made his pictures in the Jordaan (a district near the old centre of Amsterdam). His pictures reflect the daily life of those times. Many housewifes, men at work, constuctionworks and the narrow alleys of the city.
Examples of his work can be seen at the following link of the city archives of Amsterdam:
http://beeldbank.amsterdam.nl/index.php?option=com_result&Itemid=9&qasked=1&qtype=nieuw&co=553199
I tried to show to you the present streetlife of the Jordaan, which is of course quite different from a century ago. The selection of my pictures can be watched at:
http://urban.iamnotsimple.nl/#10.0
Have fun…
Arjan
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