Pas de Culte

€45,00

Author: Róman Kienjet
Publisher: Van Zoetendaal Publisher, Amsterdam
Year: 2025
ISBN: 9789072532602

Paperback with american folded dust cover, 288 pages, 164x198 oblong.
Concept: Kienjet & Van Zoetendaal
Design: Willem van Zoetendaal
Condition: NEW

Pas de culte (meaning: ‘no service’) consists of hundreds of photos of places of worship in the Netherlands and its former colonies over a period of more than 185 years, as long as the history of photography. Photos by Pieter Oosterhuis, G.H. Breitner, Alfred Stieglitz, Adolph Mulder, Ed van der Elsken, but also many unknown photographers have been selected from countless collections and archives in the Netherlands. Rarely or never shown photographs. Exteriors, with or without vegetation, or on the flat land, or in the jungle or in the flooded land, beacons on the horizon, or in the center of the city. Interiors, in daylight, empty, or during a service, or destroyed in the war, either under restoration or during demolition.

The selection is personal (Kienjet/Van Zoetendaal) and edited in associative order, so that turning the pages produces a unique melody. To occasionally catch your breath, the image sequences are interrupted by short interviews with four contemporary artists (Marinus Boezem, Paul Kooiker, Marc Mulders and Fiona Tan), each with their own vision of the house of worship. 

The book is preceded by an insightful introduction from photo historian Róman Kienjet who also conducted the interviews.

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