The Pursuit of Happiness

a photoalbum

A person is born into the world. And then? While big events and large structures dominate the news, every day the individual enters into his or her smaller struggle with life, yearning for happiness, acknowledgement or simply contentment.

In seventy photographs by almost as many photographers The Pursuit of Happiness evokes an equivocal picture of the search for a place and a meaning of one's own. These are the private news moments that will never make the papers or the six o'clock news - the rare personal victories and the inevitable defeats, the highlights and the shadow side of life.

Curator: Wim Melis
Texts: Auke Hulst 

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The Pursuit of Happiness

Price: EUR 10,00

Hardcover, fullcolor
Size 16x23,5cm, 108 pages
English
ISBN 978-90-76703-40-4
Distribution: Idea Books
Publication: 2009
Design: Hans Miedema

Books

  • Tegendraads

    Tegendraads

    An anthology by and about Ton Broekhuis € 24,50 sold out
  • Northern Ghana Life

    Northern Ghana Life

    If God breaks your leg, he will teach you how to limp € 29,95
  • IN VIVO | catalogue 2018

    IN VIVO | catalogue 2018

    The nature of nature & extended € 12,50
  • NUCLEUS | imagining science

    NUCLEUS | imagining science

    € 15,00
  • ARENA

    ARENA

    € 22,50
  • DATA RUSH

    DATA RUSH

    Catalogue Photofestival 2015 € 19,50
  • North Korean Perspectives

    North Korean Perspectives

    an exhibition on our perception of North Korea through photographic representation € 16,95 sold out
  • An Ocean of Possibilities

    An Ocean of Possibilities

    Catalogue Photofestival 2014 € 19,50
  • De Grote Onvolledige Nederlands Bakbrommer Almanak 2014

    De Grote Onvolledige Nederlands Bakbrommer Almanak 2014

    Mathieu Keuter € 50,00 sold out
  • To Have and Have Not

    To Have and Have Not

    The world of the 1% € 9,50
  • The Sweet and Sour Story of Sugar

    The Sweet and Sour Story of Sugar

    Sugar in a globalized world € 10,00
  • Terra Cognita

    Terra Cognita

    Catalogue Photofestival 2012 € 15,00
  • Magazine Terra Cognita

    Magazine Terra Cognita

    € 2,00 sold out
  • Cruel and Unusual

    Cruel and Unusual

    Prison Photography on the Road € 1,50 sold out
  • Oculus

    Oculus

    Ken Schles € 39,50
  • 40 Registers

    40 Registers

    Schnitgers Dream € 10,00
  • Metropolis - City Life in the Urban Age

    Metropolis - City Life in the Urban Age

    Catalogue Photofestival 2011 € 17,50 sold out
  • Travel Plans

    Travel Plans

    Jeffrey Silverthorne € 15,00
  • Land - Country Life in the Urban Age

    Land - Country Life in the Urban Age

    Catalogue Photofestival 2010 € 15,00
  • Warzone

    Warzone

    Beirut. Srebrenica. Kigali. Fallujah. Kandahar. € 10,00
  • Room 103

    Room 103

    Jeroen Kramer € 27,50
  • Human Conditions

    Human Conditions

    Catalogue Photofestival 2009 € 15,00
  • Tall Tales (Grote Verhalen)

    Tall Tales (Grote Verhalen)

    Mathieu Keuter € 15,00
  • Atropa bella donna

    Atropa bella donna

    Arnoud Bakker € 15,00
  • Behind Walls

    Behind Walls

    Eastern Europe before and beyond 1989 - Catalogue Photofestival 2008 € 10,00
  • Garden of Ede

    Garden of Ede

    Ivo Hendriks € 9,50
  • Soul and Soul 1969-1999

    Soul and Soul 1969-1999

    Kiyoshi Suzuki € 39,50
  • Act of Faith

    Act of Faith

    On faith and conflict, ecstasy and excess - Catalogue Photofestival 2007 € 10,00
  • Het Woord

    Het Woord

    Critical and provocative pamphlet about faith € 5,00
  • DO

    DO

    Christien Jaspars € 24,50 sold out
  • Wall House #2

    Wall House #2

    Thought Provoking, Sense Provoking € 10,00 sold out
  • Environs

    Environs

    Harry Cock € 15,00
  • Another Asia

    Another Asia

    Photography from South and Souteast Asia - Catalogue Photofestival 2006 € 10,00
  • Traces & Omens

    Traces & Omens

    The visualisation of time - Catalogue Photofestival 2005 € 10,00
  • Island

    Island

    The island of Schiermonnikoog by 7 photographers € 10,00
  • Hidden Sites

    Hidden Sites

    Literary photo book on ancient church sites in Groningen € 15,00
  • Promised Land

    Promised Land

    The city of Groningen through the eyes of foreign photographers € 10,00
  • Nazar

    Nazar

    Photography from the Arab world - Catalogue Photofestival 2004 € 15,00
  • Global Detail

    Global Detail

    Photography on globalisation - Catalogue Photofestival 2003 € 35,00
  • Mechkar

    Mechkar

    Albin Biblom - The last remaining dancing bears in Bulgaria € 5,00
  • Mundos Creados

    Mundos Creados

    Photography from Latin America - Catalogue Photofestival 2002 € 10,00
  • Confronting Views

    Confronting Views

    International project with nine photographers about the Israeli-Palestine conflict € 10,00
  • Sense of Space

    Sense of Space

    Photography on space - Catalogue Photofestival 2001 € 10,00
  • The Journals of Jacob Mandeville

    The Journals of Jacob Mandeville

    Photos and jourmal fragments by Albin Biblom € 22,50
  • Pandora's Box

    Pandora's Box

    All parallel exhibitions of the Photofestival 2001 € 15,00
  • Africa Inside

    Africa Inside

    Photography from Africa - Catalogue Photofestival 2000 € 10,00
  • Wonderland

    Wonderland

    The borders of documentary photography - Catalogue Photofestival 1999 € 0,00 sold out
  • The Garden of Eden

    The Garden of Eden

    Catalogue Photofestival 1997 € 5,00
  • Common Lives

    Common Lives

    Photography and everyday life - Catalogue Noorderlicht Photofestival 1995 € 8,50