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Kim Zwarts is an internationally acclaimed architecture photographer. Who has worked on numberous architecture books devoted to Morphosis, Antonio Gaudi, Alvar Aalto, Wim Quist, Dom Van der Laan among others.
Mostly commisioned work, like the comprehensive recordings made for ‘The Architecture Of Gerrit Rietveld’. Produced for Japanese publisher Toto, this publication presents breathtaking new high quality interior and exterior photographs of Gerrit Rietvelds architectural output.
In 1988 and 1990 Kim Zwarts photographed the complete work of Mexican architect Luis Barragán. Who worked for years with little acknowledgement or praise and is regarded today as one of the most important and influential architects of the 20th century.
As a self intitiated project, the aesthetic photographs were published more than 15 years later in the monograph 'Luis Barragán - the Eye Embodied' (2006) by Pale Pink Publishers, a collaboration between Kim Zwarts, architect /author Wim van den Bergh and graphic designer Reynoud Homan.
Kim Zwarts has travelled through the United States several times since 1982. In 2009 he wanted to investigate how his experiences and work from those years have influenced his later photography. Which turned into a sequence named 'US 2009/2011', as a result of two year work in progress.
Drawing on buildings that were designed by the architectural firm Morphosis, a number of important historical locations, and rural and urban landscapes that he found in his archive.
Looking at his photographs one senses that within these perfectly composed images of stilness a transformation of reality took place.
