Hans Eijkelboom. Good Intentions and Modern Housing
Photo Notes on an Amsterdam Suburb

Design: Mevis en Van Deursen, Illustrated (colour), Paperback, 208 pages, 22 x 26,5 cm
English/ Dutch edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-758-4, € 47.50
November 2010

Exhibition in the Special Collections Department of the Library of the University of Amsterdam from 4 November to 4 December 2010.

With the support of the AMC Art Foundation and the Matching Fund of the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts

Elected as Best Dutch Book Design 2010!

Photographer Hans Eijkelboom (1949) is fascinated with the clash between the high-flown visions of modernism and the sometimes dismaying realities of the Bijlmer district. Good Intentions and Modern Housing: Photo Notes on an Amsterdam Suburb reports on Eijkelboom’s journey of discovery through the Bijlmer with his camera as his ally. Eijkelboom sees the Bijlmer as ‘the most international place in Amsterdam’. In an introductory essay, the art critic Hans den Hartog Jager says, The struggle between good intentions and stubborn realities is characteristic of the Netherlands, and perhaps of the entire Western world. This is not the Bijlmer; this is all of us.'

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