Marks of Honour, a Striking Library

 

As a homage to the photobook per se the exhibition Marks Of Honour – A Striking Library has been created in a cooperation between Amsterdam galerist Willem

van Zoetendaal and Cologne bookseller Markus Schaden. They have invited 45 international photographers to choose a photobook which was influential to the formation of their work, and to pay it artistical homage. The resulting works have

been shown at Foam Museum Amsterdam.

All participating works (limited to five copies, each containing the original

photobook and it´s complentary homage) offer a wide spectrum that´s often

surprising in detail: Martin Parr has chosen Arakis Banquet, Koos Breukel has

chosen Ed van der Elsken, Mark van den Brink will comment on Kuranwendungen

by Andy Bosma and Todd Hido on Susan Sontags On Photography. In sum Marks

Of Honour constitutes a singular library and a system of reference on the most sustainable influences as much as the freshest in contemporary photography.