Cas Oorthuys — Bruxelles / Brussel 1946-1956
Bruxelles: Plaizier. First edition, first printing. 96 pp., 22 x 19 x 1 cm. Text in Dutch and French. Condition: Fine (F). Fine. Photographs of Brussels taken by the Dutch photographer Cas Oorthuys between 1946 and 1956, the decade after the war. The images are documentary city photography of the Belgian capital in that period. The book is the work of one photographer. Jos Vandenbreeden contributed the text, and Wijnand Plaizier is credited as co-editor. Text and captions are in French and Dutch. It was published in 2012 by Plaizier as a 96-page softcover monograph. One bookseller listing describes it as styled on the travel guides of the era.