Uit de Grootstad & Co/From the Major City & Co. #16

 Een Grootstad (Duits Großstadt) is een stad met meer dan 100.000 inwoners.(A major city (German: Großstadt) is a city with more than 100,000 inhabitants)

Amsterdam 01/02/2014

Photo show prolonged!

 

My photo show “Store Window in Store Window” can now be seen until may 25th at the window store of movie studio Franjo. Amsterdam (NL), 41 2-e vd Helststraat!

Store Window in Hamburg, Germany.

 

Ich liebe dich = I love you

Ich liebe mich= I love me

Photo from my photo show “Window Store in Window Store” which can be seen at the store window of movie studio Franjo. Amsterdam (NL), 41 2-e vd Helststraat .

Photo Hamburg, 2014/05/02, 7.26 pm.

Exhibition can be seen until April 26th. 

Early Photograph

This is the earliest picture from my photo show “Window Store in Window Store” which can be seen at the store window of movie studio Franjo. Amsterdam (NL), 41 2-e vd Helststraat . Photo: Florence, mai 1983.  Until April 25^th! 

Walking in the rain

 Photo from my show "Shop window in the Shop window". 

Invitation!!

Meet & Greet the photographer! Friday, April 8 from 4 to 6 pm! Welcome!

Exhibition!!

Photos!!

 “Shop window in the Shop window”

When: March 17, 2022 to April 25, 2022.

Where: Raamgalerie Filmstudio Franjo, 2-e van der Helststraat 41, 1073 AH Amsterdam

Open: Daily, 9am to 11pm.

Fashion stores, jewelers, bakers, McDonalds, travel agencies, garages, museums, galleries, souvenir shops, department stores, hotels and much more. Photographer Jaap Bijsterbosch walks by and always looks at the shop window through the viewfinder of his camera. He sometimes registers the content or message of the shop window, but also often the interplay between the shop window and the environment in which the shop window is located. Through the single lens of the camera, the street scene reflected in the shop window can be combined with the contents of the shop window to create alienating images, often with a poetic or surreal slant. Bijsterbosch also has no objection whatsoever to giving his own reflection in the window pane an important role as a (determining) element.

 

 

Invitation!!

Meet & Greet the photographer! Friday, April 8 from 4 to 6 pm! Welcome!

Exhibition!!

Photos!!

 “Shop window in the Shop window”

When: March 17, 2022 to April 25, 2022.

Where: Raamgalerie Filmstudio Franjo, 2-e van der Helststraat 41, 1073 AH Amsterdam

Open: Daily, 9am to 11pm.

Fashion stores, jewelers, bakers, McDonalds, travel agencies, garages, museums, galleries, souvenir shops, department stores, hotels and much more. Photographer Jaap Bijsterbosch walks by and always looks at the shop window through the viewfinder of his camera. He sometimes registers the content or message of the shop window, but also often the interplay between the shop window and the environment in which the shop window is located. Through the single lens of the camera, the street scene reflected in the shop window can be combined with the contents of the shop window to create alienating images, often with a poetic or surreal slant. Bijsterbosch also has no objection whatsoever to giving his own reflection in the window pane an important role as a (determining) element.

 

From my Shoebox #4

Sunday Special: Cork, Ireland. Shopping Window. August 1990.

Travel Photo #6

Berlin Alexanderplatz 19/8/26 6.08pm

A.D. 2018 #28.

Sometimes a photograph has a small secret. By watching some time longer, the secret often seems to be solved. Although? After having landed in San Francisco during the afternoon, coming from Amsterdam, I took this picture during the afternoon. Some jetlag…. Photograph: 8/28, 9.37 pm. A.D. 2018 is a selection from photographs I made during 2018.

A.D. 2018 #15.

Some reflections I just can’t resist. Photograph: Antwerp. (Bel), 5/23, 1.18 pm. A.D. 2018 is a selection from photographs I made during 2018.

A.D. 2018 #14.

A 2018 street image. Photograph: Rotterdam, 11/8, 12.33 am. 2018 is a selection from photographs I made during 2018.

Irish Notes (1)

As you may know I recently made a trip through Ireland. No need to say I had my camera on me. I used the device as a kind of sketch book. Sometimes I used just one take for a situation, sometimes I shot quite a lot. And of course, many sketches didn’t work out at all. But some did I think. My main subject matters were: people in the streets, pieces of landscape, and shopping windows. Some self-portraits were also made.

Up: Dublin 17/8/26 10.34 am, Middle: Dublin 17/9/09 3.57 pm, Under: Dublin 17/8/26 10.03 am.

Some more Self portraits/ Selfies.

Last one  is because of Francesca Woodman. The first one is because it was raining cats and dogs and I could not go out to take photographs. The middle one is for fun. Watch the strong saturation of the colors on the LCD screen in the shopping window. Up: Diemen 16/1/12, 2.54 pm.  Middle: Düsseldorf 15/12/09, 2.54 pm. Under Diemen 16/1/7, 1.51 pm.

March 2.

There's only a slight difference between a real human being and some mannequins. Amsterdam, 1.06 pm.

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (137) Because of a Fragmentary Nature (137)

A shopping window is a favorite subject matter for me. I can play endlessly with reflections of street life, letter signs, poster in the window, clothes, mannequins and sometimes even real people put into just one single image, which has only existed on my camera sensor. The power of Photography!  Up: Amsterdam 14/06/12 4.50 pm  Under: Aachen 14/06/11 5.02 pm

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (133) Because of a Fragmentic Nature (133)

Shopping windows. Experiments with putting the content of the shop, reflections of street life and sometimes signs of letters into one photographic frame.  An image that can only exist in my camera at just one particular moment. Photography can capture frame and time. Bit of Surrealism?

To enlarge, click at the picture!

Up: Amsterdam 2014/01/19 2.41 pm

Middle: Amsterdam 2014/01/19 2.07 pm

Under: Amsterdam 2014/01/19 4.25 pm

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (132) Because of a Fragmentic Nature (132)

As you may know, as a photographer I’m fond to peep into shopping window and to combine fragments of posters, reflections, passers-by etcetera into the frame of one picture. To me this can result into photographs with a strong graphic design, which also contain some surreal tendencies.

Things that weren’t meant to come together do have an encounter in the picture. Only in just a recorded split second. The genius of photography.

Up: Amsterdam 13/12/01 4.33 pm.

Under: Amsterdam 13/12/11 3.01 pm.

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (128) Because of a Fragmentic Nature (128)

Up: Waiting for bus 44. This was bus 335 I was looking through. Strange coincidence of the profile of a face of a woman in the bus, my face and hands in the reflection of the bus window, and a face at a commercial poster in the background behind the bus.(Amsterdam, 29/8/13, 3.05 pm)

Middle: I just can’t resist it. When I see this game of light and shadow and those small events of people passing spots of sunlight, my camera is in my hand and before my eye. And yes I push the button and at night behind the PC I do the rest.(Amsterdam, 29/8/13, 2.25 pm)

Under: More and more I am fascinated by the expressiveness of signs and letters in a photograph. (Amsterdam. 13/8/13 4.01 pm)

Some time ago I went to Antwerp for a day. Mainly to watch and capture reflections in shopping windows and mirrors. As you may well know I love to mingle the world before and behind the window. The photo camera is a beautiful device to use for this play: It glues the two 3D realities into one 2D photographic reality. A slightly surreal image is often the result.

Up: Antwerp Meir 13/07/30 11.55am

Middle: Antwerp Meir 13/07/30 11.56am

Under: Antwerp Central Station 13/07/30 11.23am