Hans Eijkelboom: People of the Twenty-First Century汉斯·艾克尔布姆：21世纪的人

Anenormousandcompletelyfascinatingcollectionof‘anti-sartorial’photographsofstreetlifebytheDutchconceptualartist/streetphotographer-FromAmsterdamtoNewYorkandParistoShanghai,thesephotographs,takenoveraperiodofmorethantwentyyears,provideacumulativeportraitofthepeopleofthetwenty-firstcentury-Amagneticpanoplyofimages,thiscultobjecthasaplaceinthelibraryofeveryphotographybookcollectoraswellasanyoneinterestedincontemporaryculture-Democratic,apoliticalandunique,thearchiveofthousandsofimagesoffersanengrossingandengagingcross-sectionofsocietyForoverfortyyears,HansEijkelboom(b.1949)hasinvestigatedthecultoftheself,celebrityandthe‘maninthestreet’.QuietandunassumingandbasedinhisstudionearAmsterdam,hehascreatedanextraordinarybodyofworkthatquestionswhoweareandhowweportrayourselves.Hisself-publishedphotobooks,numberingoverfifty,arecollectors’items.HisworkhasbeenexhibitedinAmsterdam,NewYorkandattheBienaldeSãoPaulo.