Bertien van Manen
Etten-Leur, 1977
silver gelatin print
vintage print
printed in 1978-1980
vintage print
printed in 1978-1980
image: 13.1 x 19.2 cm
paper: 30 x 39.2 cm
frame: 36 x 43 cm
paper: 30 x 39.2 cm
frame: 36 x 43 cm
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Yugoslav factory workers after work in the company canteen. 'In 1975 Bertien van Manen embarked on a project of her own: photographing the living and working conditions of migrant women...
Yugoslav factory workers after work in the company canteen.
"In 1975 Bertien van Manen embarked on a project of her own: photographing the living and working conditions of migrant women in the Netherlands. it was her response to a recently published book devoted to male 'guest workers', titled 'A Seventh Mam', in which author John Berger and photographer Jean Mohr expressed the hope that somebody else would make a book about women. When Bertien thinks back on how complicated it was to photograph those women and to get permission form their husbands, she is convinced that a man would not have succeeded. There were advantages to being a woman, as it often turned out henceforth. " text by Hripsimé Visser from: 'Archive', Bertien van Manen, MACK, London, 2021
"In 1975 Bertien van Manen embarked on a project of her own: photographing the living and working conditions of migrant women in the Netherlands. it was her response to a recently published book devoted to male 'guest workers', titled 'A Seventh Mam', in which author John Berger and photographer Jean Mohr expressed the hope that somebody else would make a book about women. When Bertien thinks back on how complicated it was to photograph those women and to get permission form their husbands, she is convinced that a man would not have succeeded. There were advantages to being a woman, as it often turned out henceforth. " text by Hripsimé Visser from: 'Archive', Bertien van Manen, MACK, London, 2021