5 fotografen door Sanne Sannes (Fotograaf) Amsterdam : Stedelijk Museum; [12] p, 28 cm |
Hans Pelgrom trained at the Institute for Applied Art Education in Amsterdam, where one of his teachers was the photographerJaap d'Oliveira. On completing his studies in 1960, he went into business as a freelance photographer, specialising in fashion and commercial photography. His fashion pictures were published in magazines including Libelle, Elegance, Panorama and Nieuwe Revue. Other commissions came from the Prad advertising agency and the container manufacturer Sea Land.
In May 1969 Pelgrom set up the Pinpoint Partner Photo Agency. Oscar van Alphen, Koen Wessing, Philip Mechanicus and Martin Neumann were among the photographers who worked for Pinpoint.
In about 1974 Pelgrom moved to New York, where he worked for Harper's Bazaar and Saks Fifth Avenue. He died there on December 26 1980.
A large part of his archive was destroyed by a fire in his Amsterdam studio. Some of the rescued negatives and slides were damaged by water. Lees verder over nozems ... & ... brandde het hart in je donder
Sannes described his approach like this: "There are many men who'll never see a woman in ecstasy. They change from one thing to something else completely different. Human emotions are my subject matter. I photograph people. They're what interest me, obsess me. I want to know what pushes them to do what they do. I don't look for them in the street; I don't do random photography. I direct them and record the moment they open up and become naked. I chose the most emotionally charged moments, the point of no return. I'm fanatically zealous!"
Photographer Anna Beeke posed for Sannes and describes him as a "voyeur and provocateur, adding that he was like a boy who'd got old too soon and was never free of the obsessions that preoccupied him"
Indeed, for many older men, there's a fine line between being sensual and becoming a pervert. Photographers, I believe, most often make this transgression. (And, may I add, it's not just with women.)
If those quotes don't make you want to read the book, you might want to get your hormone levels checked. Sannes' innovative techniques make for some really amazing images.
