Marrie Bot (born June 24, 1946) is a Dutch photographer and graphic designer.
Biography
Born in
Bergambacht
Bergambacht () is a village and former municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. Since 2015 it has been a part of the municipality of Krimpenerwaard.
The former municipality covered an area of of which was wate ...
, Bot started her career in 1963 as a graphic designer. She received some formal art education at the Vrije Academie in The Hague in the 1973/74 academic year.
Since 1976 she increasingly started focussing on photography, and settled as an independent artist in Rotterdam. She experimented with several forms of photography from
portrait photography
Portrait photography, or portraiture, is a type of photography aimed toward capturing the personality of a person or group of people by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses. A portrait photograph may be artistic or clinical. Frequentl ...
,
street photography
Street photography (also sometimes called candid photography) is photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places. Although there is a difference between street and ca ...
,
documentary photography
Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle events or environments both significant and relevant to history and historical events as well as everyday life. It is typically undertaken as professional pho ...
, and
nude photography to
photojournalism.
In her work Bot has often chosen those socio-political themes which are a taboo. She researched and studied her subjects at length before she presented her work. Subjects she pictured have been massive
pilgrimage
A pilgrimage is a journey, often into an unknown or foreign place, where a person goes in search of new or expanded meaning about their self, others, nature, or a higher good, through the experience. It can lead to a personal transformation, aft ...
s in Europe in 1984,
mentally handicapped
Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability in the United Kingdom and formerly mental retardation, Rosa's Law, Pub. L. 111-256124 Stat. 2643(2010). is a generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by signifi ...
in 1988, and multicultural
funeral and
mourning
Mourning is the expression of an experience that is the consequence of an event in life involving loss, causing grief, occurring as a result of someone's death, specifically someone who was loved although loss from death is not exclusively ...
rituals in the Netherlands in 1998.
[Marrie Bot. ''Geliefden. Timeless love.'' Rotterdam: Braam, S. (2005).]
General info online
2015)
Bot was awarded the Maria Austria Photography Prize in 1989 for her photobook 'Bezwaard bestaan' on
mentally handicapped people and the
Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art in 1990 for her complete oeuvre.
See also
*
List of women photographers
Selected publications
* Marrie Bot, ''Miserere: de grote boetebedevaarten in Europa,'' 1984
* Marrie Bot, ''Miserere: The great pilgrimages of penance in Europe.'' Rotterdam: Marrie Bot, 1985. . An English-language version of the Dutch-language book.
* Marrie Bot, ''Bezwaard bestaan : foto's en verhalen over verstandelijk gehandicapten.'' 1988. .
* Marrie Bot, ''Fotoboek over bedevaartgangers in plaatsen in o.a. Spanje, Polen en Ierland.'' 1989.
* Marrie Bot, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum (1990), ''Marrie Bot, photographer.''
* Marrie Bot, ''Een laatste groet: uitvaart- en rouwrituelen in multicultureel Nederland,'' M. Bot. 1998.
References
External links
Marrie Bot portfolioMarrie Botat fotomuseumdenhaag.nl
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1946 births
Living people
Dutch photographers
Dutch graphic designers
People from Bergambacht
Dutch women photographers
Dutch women graphic designers