AMSTERDAM.- This exhibition is based on the idea
of
‘infatuations’ that can affect both photographers and exhibition
curators.
People often suppose that museums make choices as objectively as
possible, but
actually this is far from the truth. Just as an artist may feel
physically and
emotionally attracted to a particular subject, the collector or curator
might
also have a ‘crush’ on a certain work. The term ‘the infatuated camera’
comes
from the title of a 1971 film by Ed van der Elsken, De Verliefde Camera,
a
compilation of travel clips previously filmed by him. This exhibition
has been
assembled in a similar way; photographs and film rushes from the present
day
contrast with excerpts and impressions from the previous century. Works
have
been seemingly casually arranged according to summery themes: hanging
out,
taking strolls, the intense experience of landscape, laid-back portraits
in the
park, or travel and being in transit.