Oog om oog

Sanne Sannes
Oog om oog

Photographs: Sanne Sannes

Text: Hugo Claus

Publisher: De Bezige Bij

96 pages

Pictures: 54

Year: 1964

Comments: Illustrated hard cover without dust jacket as issued. 36 x 21cm, b&w photographs.poems by Hugo Claus, design by Pieter Groot. Slightly yellowed on the edges of the pages inside and some scratches on front cover, slightly bumped on back cover's corners (see pictures). otherwise in vey good condition.

Sannes deliberately intensified the contrast in this print. The white of the skin is ‘bleached out’, the dark passages virtually ‘run together’, whereby little, if any, detail can be made out. This was one of the ways in which Sannes manipulated his photographs. A cropped version of this photograph was used for the cover of Oog om oog (Eye for Eye) in 1964, the only photo book by Sannes that was published before his untimely death.