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| Jan van Leeuwen was
born in 1932 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. A salesman, office manager, and
buyer for trading companies, his early photographs were images
of the products he represented. In 1986, he began to seriously
study photography and attended a workshop devoted to self-portraits. The
workshop greatly impacted his photography and from that point forward
the self-portrait became his main subject. A well-known Dutch
photo-collector introduced van Leeuwen to the cyanotype process. Lebensgefahrlich! (Life-danger!) is part of a series of images where a common motif is the barb-wire that is placed in the center of each image. In the series, the shadowy self-portraits evoke a variety of emotions including isolation and despair. The lack of a range of color except for the shades of blue from the cyanotype process and the white paper emphasize the composition of the images as well as the emotional qualities of the work.  (For Grades K-3) What do you think the hands are doing in this picture? How many hands are in this picture? |
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