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Harry Gruyaert : Café Belgica

Title
Harry Gruyaert : Café Belgica / author Roger Szmulewicz, Stephan Vanfleteren
Author
Gruyaert, Harry, 1941-
Publication
Antwerp, Belgium : Galerie Fifty One, 2022

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  • Szmulewicz, Roger
  • Vanfleteren, Stephan, 1969-
Description
100 pages : illustrations, portraits; 21 cm +
Summary
We Belgians are used to seeing people have fun, get drunk, dance or do whatever else they please in this temple of emotions. To sober outsiders, cafés are an enigmatic territory, where a miracle potion is served. It's Harry instead of Asterix chez les Belges. In all likelihood, the photographer had to leave his comfort zone to better understand it. Taking a step back to see the bigger picture. Leaving to arrive. It's ironic that no other Belgian was able to preserve this culture as brilliantly as Gruyaert. I used the word preserve on purpose. Unlinke wine, beer is not stored. It is consumed as soon as possible. Perhaps that's why beer drinkers are so impatient when they're thirsty." (Stephan Vanfleteren, from his introduction to the new Fifty One Publication 'Café Belgica' by Harry Gruyaert)
Alternative Title
Café Belgica
Subject
  • Gruyaert, Harry, 1941-
  • 1900-1999
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) in art
  • Belgium
ISBN
  • 9789463883252
  • 9463883258
OCLC
  • on1293294742
  • 1293294742
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries