Koos Breukel — Hyde
Amsterdam: Willem van Zoetendaa. First edition, first printing. 36 pp., 18x15. Condition: New. Mint Without dust jacket (as issued). Hyde is a photographic work by Koos Breukel featuring a series of portraits of Michael Matthews, an HIV-positive poet and performer. The project originated from a request by Matthews, who viewed the sessions as his 'last performance' before his death in 1996. The images are described as sombre and powerful, capturing the beauty of a changing human body through dry, dark, cracked skin and delicate bone structures. The book is composed with text by Michael Matthews and concept/design by Willem van Zoetendaal, serving as a manifesto that prefigures Breukel's later work.