Bertien Van Manen
Bertien van Manen (1942-2024) was an internationally renowned Dutch photographer. Her curiosity about the intimate lives of ordinary people took her to China, Europe, and the Former Soviet Union, creating images of folks partaking in the quotidian. van Manen’s most recent monograph, Beyond Maps and Atlases, was published by MACK in 2016. She has released seven previous monographs including A hundred summers, a hundred winters (1994); East Wind West Wind (2004); Give Me Your Image (2005); and Let’s sit down before we go (2011), among others.
Van Manen’s work has been exhibited internationally at dozens of museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York); Fotomuseum Winterthur (Amsterdam); Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam); Photographer’s Gallery (London); and the Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Tokyo). Her photos are held in the permanent collections of several major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); the Museum of Modern Art (New York); and the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam).