Henk Jonker

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Hendrik Peter "Henk" Jonker (

North Sea Flood of 1953
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Biography

Born in Berkhout, a small town in West Friesland, Jonker moved to Amsterdam at the age of 13. During World War II, he had a job at the Amsterdam office for resident registration and got involved with the Dutch resistance. Photographer Marie Östreicher (better known as Maria Austria; the Maria Austria Institute in Amsterdam is named for her) taught him the techniques of photography, and he was able to forge personal identification documents for the resistance, until he had to go into hiding in 1944.[1] Tall and blond, on occasion he dyed his hair black and, disguised as a female nurse,[2] took photographs of Amsterdam documenting the German occupation. These photographs were used as documentary evidence of the occupation, and to strengthen morale and raise funds for resistance activities.[3] During this period he used the aliases Gerrit Boersma, Frans Kreder, and Hélène Annie Smitshuisen.[1]

Jonker married Austria after the war was over and for a while was a full-time photographer. With Austria and others he founded the press agency Particam (derived from Partizanen Camera) and documented the post-war reconstruction,

North Sea Flood of 1953, which killed over 1800 people in the Netherlands.[4][5] Jonker arrived in Zeeland with the very first aid workers, and photographed people standing on the roofs of their homes.[6] In 1955 his photograph of a joyfully dancing couple was selected by Edward Steichen[7] for the exhibition and book The Family of Man. In 1959, he won second place in one of the World Press Photo of the Year categories.[1]

From 1947 to 1950, he lived and worked in Ireland, and in 1963 he met Manja van Rootselaar with whom he later on married and had a daughter with in 1964, his only child, Manja. From 1965 to 1968, he worked and lived in Spain, making

Algemeen Handelsblad.[7]

Legacy

Jonkers was known for portraying ordinary people and street scenes, and his photographs of the reconstruction and the 1953 floods are cited as a lasting legacy. The 1998 exhibition Holland zonder haast ("Holland without haste") was dedicated to him.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Henk Jonker (1912–2002)" (in Dutch). Netherlands Institute for Art History. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
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  3. ISBN 9789053565285
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  4. ^ "42. De watersnood" (in Dutch). Literatuurplein.nl. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  5. ^ Smeets, Joris (24 January 2003). "Boeken over de Watersnoodramp: Een reconstructie en een verdronken dorp" (in Dutch). Nederland 24. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  6. ^ a b c Capelleveen, Ruud van (2012). "Henk Jonker (1912–2002) Biografie" (in Dutch). Cultuurarchief.nl. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  7. ^ a b "Fotograaf Henk Jonker (89) overleden". NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch). 24 September 2002. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  8. ^ "Henk Jonker". Trouw (in Dutch). 26 September 2002. Retrieved 30 May 2014.

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