Tag: picturing

Polaroids of Amsterdam nightlife in the 1970s follow a long tradition of picturing drunks

InHolland, the denizens of bars and pubs have long provided artists with subject matter both timeless and socially critical. Dutch Golden Age painters like Jan Steen and Adriaen van Ostade, attempting to condense into a frame the fractious, dynamic, destitute world of working class tavern culture, m...