Ruben van Luijk
is photographer, author & historian. Specializes in photography with Agfa Clack and other obsolete techniques. Main theme in all his work, literary as well as visual, is the ephemerality of all things beautiful.
Ruben van Luijk is also the driving force behind Uitgeverij Nadorst.
See also: rubenvanluijk.wordpress.com
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€ 15,00Girls of Rotterdam
Where can you find the loveliest girls in the world? In Rotterdam, of course! Photographer Ruben van Luijk took his old Agfa Clack to the streets to portray girls he met on the city sidewalks. Fifty gelatin silver prints of this series made in his photographic darkroom are now collected in this book.
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€ 50,00Notatki poznańskie/Poznań notes
Gritty darkroom prints on obsolete East Bloc paper give a peculiar, otherworldy atmosphere to this photobook portraying the Polish city of Poznań. Artisanal bookbinder Pagina1 was responsible for the special format of this unique publication, with an alternatively positioned spine and more fold-out pages than an illustrated book for children.
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€ 25,00Rotterdammers
Rotterdammers is the first entry in the Leporello Series and features images photographer Ruben van Luijk made when roaming his native city Rotterdam. Captured in all their variety, the people on these pictures sometimes seem to have walked in straight from the fifties, while others clearly belong to the twentyfirst century.
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€ 10,00Het boek van de mooie dingen
In 25 poetical lemma, Ruben van Luijk's miniature encyclopedia of happiness tells about the things that make life worth living. A must-have for both happy and unhappy readers – and everybody in between.
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€ 17,50Petit manuel pour se balancer à un arbre
In Petit manuel pour se balancer à un arbre [‘Kleine handleiding voor het slingeren aan bomen’] nodigt Ruben van Luijk ons uit om de verloren kunst van het boomslingeren te herontdekken. In drie eenvoudige stappen wordt de lezer in staat gesteld zich deze onfeilbare manier om gelukkig te zijn eigen te maken.
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€ 15,00Het lelijke meisje
Knullige romantiek, overvloedige seks, onoplosbare dilemma’s & paaltjesroutewandelingen: dat zijn de trefwoorden van deze tragikomische liefdesgeschiedenis. Vintage van Luijk!
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€ 10,00Groen
Humoristisch & ontroerend debuut over de verboden liefde van een gereformeerde jongen voor het mooiste meisje van de bijbelstudiegroep.
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