Our Erf
Theo Baart
Commissioned work
Ons Erf
Identity, heritage and cultural dynamics
2014
| "We are growing towards a world culture. Multi-culture has appeared everywhere and there is also opposition to it. People often start to emphasize their old own culture. What is the intertwining between indigenous and cosmopolitanism? What do we see in the past as typical of one's own?
[...]
Ons Erf is a book about the meaning of the national feeling, the future of the multicultural society and the role of religion. It is richly illustrated with photos by Theo Baart. "
quote from the publisher Bezige Bij
Ons Erf
received the E. du Perron prize for text and photography in 2015.
Text Warna Oosterbaan
PhotographyTheo Baart
Design Tessa van der Waals
170 * 240 mm | 248 pages
Publisher Bezige Bij
text in Dutch
Made possible by financial support from
The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
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Vinexwijk Haverleij, Den Bosch, design Sjoerd Soeters
scale model concentration camp, replica watchtower, camp Vught, Vught
Elfstedenbrug, Bartlehiem
Golden Carriage, Royal stables,
the Hague
Leiden Relieved, Leiden
Rotterdam South
Flower parade, Zundert
Decoration for the European Football Championships, Lelystad
Chinese restaurant, Drunen
Zwarte pieten, De Bijenkorf,
Amsterdam
signpost at Westerbork camp
'Prom' 5 Havo Kaj Munk College, cafe restaurant De Beurs, Hoofddorp
tourists at monument ir Lely, Afsluitdijk
Commissioned work
Atlas of New Towns