Useful Photography #001

useless is an ode to the photographers we don't know by name but whose work we all knowby looking at it daily
The sim­plest way of judg­ing the true value of a pho­to­graph is to take it out of its con­text. Cut a photo out of a news­pa­per, put it in a frame, and hang it on the wall. The vast ma­jor­ity will fail the test. But cut out a pho­to­graph from a whole­sale butcher's brochure, one of those pack­ag­ing shots of an alu­minum tray full to the edges with pink chicken breasts, hang it over your bed, and a year later you still won't have got­ten enough of it. For years, the ed­i­tors of Use­ful Pho­tog­ra­phy had draw­ers in their desks where they qui­etly col­lected such pho­tographs. Now their pri­vate col­lec­tions form the basis for this new Dutch mag­a­zine, in trib­ute to those anony­mous pho­tog­ra­phers who in their out-of-the-way stu­dios pro­duce such un­in­ten­tional beauty.
Edited by Erik Kessels, Hans Aars­man, Claudie de Cleen, Ju­lian Ger­main and Hans van der Meer.