Hans Aarsman

Hans Aarsman (born 27 December 1951)<ref name="stedelijk">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is a Dutch photographer, author, and lecturer at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. His work is held in the collections of the Netherlands Photo Museum, Rijksmuseum and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.<ref name="stedelijk"/><ref name="nederlandsfotomuseum">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="rijksmuseum">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Life and work

Aarsman was born in 1951 in Amsterdam.<ref name="stedelijk"/> He started his career as a photojournalist for the Dutch newspaper Trouw. In 1989 he published the book Hollandse Taferelen which consisted of landscapes photographed from the roof of a camper which he pulled through the Netherlands for a year.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1990–1991 he finished a photo series of East German states. Template:As of he was an editor of the magazine Useful Photography.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Aarsman also is a novelist and playwright. His debut literary work was Twee hoofden, een kussen (1995).

Publications

Photography

• Hollandse Taferelen (1989)<ref name="nederlandsfotomuseum-acquistions">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Aarsmans Amsterdam (1993)<ref name="nederlandsfotomuseum-acquistions"/>
• Een engeltje dat over mijn tong piest (1995)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Vrrooom! Vrrooom! (2003)

Literature

• Twee hoofden, een kussen (1995)

Collections

Aarsman's work is held in the following permanent collections:

• Netherlands Photo Museum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands<ref name="nederlandsfotomuseum"/>
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam<ref name="rijksmuseum"/>
• Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands<ref name="stedelijk"/>

External links

• Template:Official website
• Aarsman giving a talk at TEDxAmsterdam in 2009 (video)