["Arie Versluis","Ellie Uyttenbroek"] (["1961","1965"])

Early birds - Rotterdam

["Arie Versluis","Ellie Uyttenbroek"] (["1961","1965"])

Early birds - Rotterdam

2005 | high-gloss C-print mounted between 2 mm Dibond and 2 mm Plexiglas provided with a U-profile on the back | 59 × 42 cm

Clothes make the man, as the saying goes. The Exactitudes series – ‘exact’ plus ‘attitude’ – breaks that down into codes.

Arie Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek achieved international critical acclaim in 1994 by photographing living examples of the strict dress codes of different groups in society. They photographed twelve people per subculture in identical poses against a constant background.


Show me more