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Selling polaroids in the bars of Amsterdam 1980 : Bettie Ringma & Marc H. Miller

Title
Selling polaroids in the bars of Amsterdam 1980 : Bettie Ringma & Marc H. Miller / edited by Leonor Faber-Jonker.
Publication
  • [Eindhoven] : Lecturis, [2023]
  • ©2023

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Additional Authors
  • Miller, Marc H.
  • Ringma, Bettie.
  • Faber-Jonker, Leonor, 1987-
Description
207 pages : color illustrations, plan, portraits; 29 cm
Summary
In late 1979, a new phenomenon appears in the nightlife of Amsterdam: the Polaroid photographer. New York artists Bettie Ringma and Marc H. Miller temporarily exchange their loft in the Lower East Side of New York for a houseboat in Amsterdam, and start selling instant photo portraits taken in pubs around Rembrandtplein, Leidseplein and Zeedijk. They pioneered a practice that continues to this day. The pair photograph in brown pubs, Turkish cafés, transvestite bars and queer clubs; they build up a regular clientele and meet remarkable people such as, ?Ko the Muscleman,? the self-confident ?animer girl? Nettie, and the extravagant pub owner-cum-pigeon fancier, Henk. It?s a time of big moustaches, full ashtrays and unrestrained hedonism.00Ringma and Miller took countless photos that were distributed among the nightlife public, but ? sponsored by Polaroid ? they also built their own collection of more than 350 Polaroid portraits of Amsterdam bar-goers.00Forty years later, this collection is a time capsule of the raw but colorful Amsterdam nightlife in the year 1980. Selling Polaroids in the Bars of Amsterdam, 1980 is the first photo book of this unique collection. In addition to a large selection of Polaroids, the book contains descriptions by Marc H. Miller and essays by Mark Bergsma and Leonor Faber-Jonker about Amsterdam nightlife around 1980, as well as the artistic practice of Ringma and Miller.
Alternative Title
Bettie Ringma & Marc H. Miller
Subject
  • Ringma, Bettie
  • Miller, Marc H
  • Instant photography
  • Portrait photography > Netherlands > Amsterdam > History > 20th century
  • Portraits, Dutch > Netherlands > Amsterdam
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) > Netherlands > Amsterdam > Pictorial works
  • foto's
  • polaroidfotografie
  • portretfotografie
  • uitgaansleven
  • Amsterdam
Genre/Form
Photobooks.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
  • 9789462264724
  • 9462264724
OCLC
  • on1371244154
  • 1371244154
  • SCSB-14615911
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries