Van Leeuwen's series of works are similar to Italian and French films. Nonstaged plots reflect the story in the center of which is a person and his experiences. At the age of twelve or thirteen the book The Family of Man fell into my hands. It was a book in the wake of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York curated by Edward Steichen Van Leeuwen recalls in one of his books. – I was shocked that the expression of the emotions of people in the photographs despite their diversity in appearance culture habitat were the same all over the world. It was clear that between all these people and nations there were more similarities than differences.
Then I realized something that was difficult for me as a child to describe but that e-commerce photo editing connected us all humanity. This book probably served as an inspiration for all my subsequent works in which consciously or not I always looked for a timeless human story. Van Leeuwen's mother bought him his first camera as he jokes to keep him out of the street. At the age of seventeen Bart's first photographs were published in the Dutch underground magazine Hitweek. In he graduated from the University of Applied Photography in The Hague. I realized that photographers can do with images what writers can do with words.
To convey feelings that are difficult to describe but which have a deep meaning. In his short story The Devil's Drool the Argentine writer Julio Cortazar gave the best definition of photography One of the best ways to fight oblivion and nonexistence is photography. To be able to interpret reality in this way . Already in his first works Van Leeuwen deliberately abandoned the deliberate fashion. The cinematic style of storytelling has become his trademark. His assistant Frans had to get used to the fact that Barthes like a street photographer rushes through the crowd using only a handheld camera and short lenses. He never resorted to filters telephoto and wideangle lenses.
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