Jan Dibbets, The Photographic Work

Erik Verhagen is professor of art history at Université de Lille.

• Preface Foreword Introduction Part 1 Context(s) / BeginningsA Rapid RiseGoing in the Opposite Direction: A Conceptual CrossingConceptual photography: the impossible documentOn representationThe Perspective Corrections“Audiovisual Documentation”: the exhibition at the Museum Haus Lange in KrefeldProcessMetro piece—Paris, The Halifax Diary Robin Redbreast's Territory Elective Affinities: An Impure Minimal ArtContradictions Illusionism Other criteriaObjecthoodOntological questSequencesThe ShadowpiecesFlood TideThe Shortest DayShutterspeed PiecesPart 2 Pretext(s) / DevelopmentsFrom Nature to ColorThe horizonThe aquatic and vegetal subjectsThe ColorstudiesFrom Structure to ArchitectureThe Structure panoramas The last floors, Piccolo mondo, Kosmos, Untitled The tributes to Saenredam From Architecture to Windows San Casciano dei Bagni EiffeltowerThe first cupolas The last cupolas The windows Minneapolis, Wayzata Windows The elliptical windows Part 3 ConclusionConclusionNotesBibliography / ExhibitionsWritings by Jan Dibbets Interviews with Jan Dibbets Books on Jan Dibbets Miscellaneous PublicationsSelected solo exhibitionsSelected group exhibitions Index of WorksPhotographic Credits