
L.J.A.D. Creyghton (1954)
Woudsend (2005)
photo, 90 x 200 cm
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Creyghton is a landscape photographer at heart. He sets out before dawn to photograph the moment nature awakens. His photographs look like seventeenth-century paintings of primeval Dutch landscapes, with the horizon classically positioned a third of the way across the frame or with an imposing cloudy sky above an empty landscape. The landscapes he chooses are layered with meaning. Often a major historical event took place here, or they refer to what we imagine as "our Holland¨. Whether razor sharp or coarse-grained, his photographs evoke a poetic, magical atmosphere. Four of his works hang in the Radiology Department.
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