Sara sent this to me some time ago; I can’t believe I’m only now just able to get it uploaded! Thanks, Sara!)
Van Waarde (Of Value). Sara Blokland, The Zuiderzee Museum, May 2008, 430 photos, 320 pages, 170 x 215mm, ISBN: 978-90-812747-1-5.
From Blokland’s web page:
The artist publication Van waarde (of value ) can be read and viewed as a novel of more than 300 pages telling the history of the Zuiderzee and its inhabitants. A history that is recorded in photographs, descriptions and stored in the archives of the Zuiderzee museum. With Van Waarde Sara Blokland aims to make an publication that reflects on the role of image and text in a document of history. What do we keep, how do we explain and describe it . In Van Waarde the emphasis lies on the role that photography plays in preserving history. The photograph as a reminder, as archive, as artwork, as evidence and property. But how do we describe these pictures ,and how do we know what they are ,Van waarde zooms in on a dutch history starting with the sea followed by land, houses, interiors, people, and ends with not (visually) defined objects.
