Getting started with the collection:
Gerard Reve reading Nader tot U
Eddy Posthuma de Boer (1931), gelatin silver print, 1968
Photography played an important role in the merging of art and popular culture in the 1960s. The famous Dutch writer Gerard Reve was a clever poseur who consciously used the medium to fashion his image as a homo-sexual and a Catholic convert. Under the heading ‘the writer has a shop’ he repeatedly had himself portrayed with objects that refer to his controversial reputation.
- Object numberRP-F-2011-21-40-1
- Dimensions304 mm x 204 mm, 311 mm x 220 mm
- Physical characteristicsontwikkelgelatinezilverdruk