Botman, Machiel (Dutch, b.1955). "Ijke, 1993" (Boy with Flower, Rainchild). Silver Print.Hand signed in pencil (beneath mat) Image: 8" x 13.25". Framed: 18.5" x 22.5".
A key figure in contemporary Dutch photography, Machiel Botman is represented by the Gitterman Gallery in New York, Galerie VU in Paris and the Kahmann Gallery in Amsterdam. His books include Heartbeat (Volute, 1994), Rainchild (Schaden and Le Point du Jour, 2004) and One Tree (Nazraeli Press, 2011). His work is included in numerous institutional collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Tokyo Museum of Photography and the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem. Machiel Botman was born in 1955 in Vogelenzang, The Netherlands. Self-taught, Botman has photographed since the age of 10. In the early 1980s he learned to print by assisting the master printer Philippe Salaün in Paris, who made prints for Willy Ronis, Izis, Robert Doisneau and others.
He lives in Haarlem, the Netherlands.
Select Group Exhibitions
Gitterman Gallery Summer Exhibition
Adam Bartos, Ferenc Berko, Machiel Botman Josef Breitenbach, Eugene Meatyard, Joseph Szabo, Edmund Teske etc.
Gitterman Gallery Eclectic
Bruno Barbey, Machiel Botman, Pierre Cordier, František Drtikol, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Izis, Pierre Jahan, Helen Levitt, Tina Modotti, Josef Sudek, Roman Vishniac, Minor White, etc.
Kahmann Gallery The Old Man & The Sea
Nobuyoshi Araki, Machiel Botman, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, Irving Klaw, etc.
Kahmann Gallery FLAVOURS
Eva Besnyö, Machiel Botman, Harry Callahan, Takeshi Shikama, Maura Sullivan, Albert Watson etc.
European Photography - Reggio Emilia
Mark Borthwick, Machiel Botman, Kevin Cummins, Francesco Jodice, Michael Kenna, Man Ray Alberta Pellacani, Alessandra Spranzi, Luigi Veronesi, Richard Wentworth, Alain Willaume etc.
Kahmann Gallery, Imagine A collection of contemporary and vintage photographs
Jehsong Baak, Eva Besnyö, Machiel Botman, Fons Brasser, etc.
Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf L'Homme-paysage
Dieter Appelt, Machiel Botman, William Kentridge, Javier Pérez, Giuseppe Penone, Jim Shaw
Zabriskie Gallery, The Beach
Machiel Botman, Esther Bubley, Harry Callahan, Joel Meyerowitz, Garry Winogrand etc.
Kahmann Gallery, Dutch Nudes...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography