Author Description

This autumn, get acquainted with Cas Oorthuys--photographer, optimist, world traveller and family man with an oeuvre equal to that of such internationally known names as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Werner Bischof. On 15 September, the long-awaited retrospective entitled 'This is Cas: Vintage Photography by Cas Oorthuys' will open at the Nederlands Fotomuseum. Cas Oorthuys (1908-1975) spent his entire life, practically without interruption, taking pictures - and lots of them. He never left home without a camera - usually with two or three and sometimes more of them around his neck. By the time he died, he had accumulated an archive of almost half a million photographs. Like the 17th-century landscape painters who determined the look of the Netherlands for centuries afterward, Cas Oorthuys did this with photography: with wind, water, imposing cloud formations, and an open uncluttered landscape. Exhibition: Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (15.09.2018-13.01.2019).