Cor Jaring - Folder with 17 mixed printing techniques by Cor Jaring from the "Port Labor" series - Sold

A large folder with a lot of graphics (1x night shift / 4x dock worker white 2x high-gloss white / 1x silver / 2x high-gloss black / 2x blue and 1 x red / 4x the welder). The theme of this folder is "port workers" designed and printed in-house in the 70s and 80s by this famous Amsterdam Provo photographer.

Artist: Cor Jaring (1936-2013)
Title/Presentation: "Port Workers"
Date: 1980s
Medium /Technique: various printing techniques including high gloss / screen printing
Dimensions: 50 x 40 cm
Signed: some pieces on the back in pencil
Condition: good

Cor Jaring. Rasamsterdammer. Jofele Mokummer. Talker. Prankster. Child of Amsterdam East. Born in Wittenburg, in 1936. A time of crisis, poverty and the threat of war. Boys in the Eastern Isles had two career prospects in those times. Dock worker or sailor. Cor became a worker in the port. He was less suitable as a sailor, because he already felt sick on the ferry to North.

Cor managed to escape from life as a worker through photography. While he worked in the port he took photos. Impressive photos. Photos that provide an impression of this industry that has now disappeared from Amsterdam. Photos of hard labor. From fighting and buffaloing. Of blood, sweat and tears. Beautiful pictures. Romantic. Historical. A time document. Photos that stand out. Even then.

Those photos introduced him to the world of art and journalism. And he fell in with his nose. And developed as a controversial photographer of the 1960s. With photos of Beatles singer John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono in the Hilton Hotel. Photos of the Amsterdam hippie scene, with birds of paradise such as Robert Jasper Grootveld, Kees Hoekert, Aatje Veldhoen, Roel van Duijn and many others. Jaring was there and captured it all. Cor Jaring was everywhere. And with everyone. In photos that very well capture the innocence and dreams of that period. Jaring was the chronicler of the naive 1960s, when people still dreamed of world peace. When a bunch of cheerful young people dancing around the Lieverdje were still seen as a threat to the state. When students still wanted to change society.