( Yes, you could have seen the images in real life too in April in Amsterdam. )
But as the exibition is over, you will have to enjoy a selected few in cyberspace.
a document from Andreas Strübin to be seen in
Cafe "TRAMLIJN BEGEERTE"
Van Stirumplein 4 in Amsterdam,
from 1 April to 30 April 2000
WELCOME TO THE INFORMAL OPENING ON SATURDAY 1 APRIL BETWEEN 3 AND 5 !
Frederich Strübin
photographies
Frederich Strübin, 1929-1971,
was an agricultural engineer from Liestal
in northern Switzerland,
who immigrated to Canada with his young family in 1952,where they stayed until 1969.
During most of 1947, he travelled through America studying rural life
and the evolving farming techniques.
He took many slides, as
straightforward travel documents without any artistic pretentions,
to be
shown to curious friends or on local farmers' meetings.
In a similar way he also documented his family, living in rural Ontario
during the big immigration boom of the fifties.
These archives have sometimes barely survived the years of travelling,
damp attics, numerous house removals, and even a house's burn down.
Andreas Strübin
lithographies
the son of Frederich, was born in 1952 in Switzerland, raised mainly in Canada,
and has now been a dutch resident for many years.
The magic of the dark room has since childhood fascinated him,
long before he became a specialist in presslitography and silkscreenprinting in Holland.
His professional experience in the digital field has now allowed him
to realise this long time project of reviving his father's images:
" Working my way trough all these slides and negatives has been
a
personal journey that gave me a new perspective on my father.
The cafe "Tramlijn Begeerte" in Amsterdam West
named after Tenessee Williams'
unforgettable and screenplayed "A Streetcar Named Desire"
with its
colourful informal crowd
seems just the right place where I wanted to
share these documents."
For information:
or tel.0229
55733061
I simply could not resist to show you the person that originally made the images full-size
so: "may I introduce to you:
(and now ) to the images!
