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Jul 23, 2021 · Erwin Olaf’s Haunting Photographs of Strange and Wild Beauty The celebrated Dutch photographer and multimedia artist looks back at his 40-year career that poses the age-old question, “What is real?”
Mar 19, 2021 · The work of Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf (born 1959) is recognizable for its high-gloss aesthetic value and compositional precision, all staged down to the smallest detail. His large-scale portraiture and genre scenes are by turns sensual and surreal; each photograph appears as though it could be a frame lifted from a film.
Marking Olaf’s first comprehensive solo exhibition in Germany, the companion publication deals with essential aspects of Olaf’s art and offers an attractive survey of his multifaceted oeuvre from the past forty years.
Jul 6, 2021 · Erwin Olaf: Strange Beauty Hardcover – July 6, 2021. by Roger Diederen (Editor), Erwin Olaf (Photographer), Daniel Hornuff (Contributor), 21. See all formats and editions. A 40-year survey of lush portraits and eerie genre scenes from the celebrated Dutch photographer. A Los Angeles Times 2021 holiday gift guide pick.
The photographer Erwin Olaf (*1959) is one of the most renowned contemporary artists in the Netherlands. The Kunsthalle München is now staging the first, large-scale retrospective dedicated to his oeuvre in Germany.
Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf brings a commercial photographer's clean, burnished sensibility to richly produced pictures with narrative implications that are never clear-cut. The result: Imagination is unleashed as a viewer is seduced into wanting to know something that's unlikely ever to be fully revealed.--Christopher Knight "Los Angeles Times"
The work of Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf (born 1959) is recognizable for its high-gloss aesthetic value and compositional precision, all staged down to the smallest detail. His large-scale portraiture and genre scenes are by turns sensual and surreal; each photograph appears as though it could be a frame lifted from a film.
