The Pursuit of Happiness
a photoalbum
A person is born into the world. And then?
While big events and large structures dominate the news, every day the individual enters into his or her smaller struggle with life, yearning for happiness, acknowledgement or simply contentment. In seventy photographs by almost as many photographers The Pursuit of Happiness evokes an equivocal picture of the search for a place and a meaning of one's own. These are the private news moments that will never make the papers or the six o'clock news - the rare personal victories and the inevitable defeats, the highlights and the shadow side of life.
Curator: Wim Melis
Texts: Auke Hulst
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Photographers: Johnny Amore (DE), Brigitte Bauer (DE), Peter van Beek & Henri Brekveld (NL), Nina Berman (Laif) (US), Martin Bogren (SE), Nathalie Bothur (DE), Laura Boushnak (KW), Susan Bozic (CA), Alejandro Chaskielberg (AR), Bertrand Cottet (CH), Chong Dai (CN), Nathalie Daoust (CA), Pedro David (BR), James Whitlow Delano (US/JP), Stephen Dupont (AU), Kris van Exel (BE), Jenny Gaulitz (SE), Kevin German (US), Reinier Gerritsen (NL),Brigitte Grignet (BE), Emmanuel Guillaud (JP), Conny Habbel (DE), Katharina Hesse (DE), Elis Hoffman (SE), Sohrab Hura (IN), Mathilde Jansen (NL), Yevgeny Kondakov (RU), Thomas Lekveldt (DK), Tatiana Leshkina (Russian Tearoom) (RU), Sebastien Loubatie (FR), Benjamin Lowy (US), Stefano de Luigi (DE), Rania Matar (LB), Andreas Meichsner (DE), Paula Muhr (YU), Sofie Nagels (BE), Sandy Nicholson (AU), Matthew Niederhauser (US), Mads Nissen (DK), Nick Nostitz (DE), Soonhwa Oh (KP), Richard Pak (FR), Irina Popova (Fotodepartament Foundation Saint-Petersburg) (RU), Philip Poupin (FR), Bruno Quinquet (FR), Susana Raab (PE), Katarina Radovic (YU), Agnieszka Rayss (PL), Marc Renaud (CH), Daniel Rosenthal (Laif) (DE), Denis Rouvre (FR), Ruth & Samsonoff (FR), Bastienne Schmidt (DE), Corinne Silva (GB), Matej Sitar (SI), Kerry Skarbakka (US), Martin Specht (DE), Andrea Stern (US), Jens Sundheim & Kathryn Baingo (DE), Flore-Ael Surun (FR), Paczai Tamas (RO), Wei Leng Tay (SG), Andrew Testa (GB), Amy Touchette (US), David Trattles (Reportage Editing) (CA), Jim Turbert (US), Sarah Van den Elsken (BE), Valentina Zanobelli (IT)
Price: EUR 29,50
Hardcover, fullcolor
Size 16x23,5cm, 108 pages
English
ISBN 978-90-76703-40-4
Distribution: Idea Books
Publication: 2009
Design: Hans Miedema
