A new book titled 'Can Love Be a Photograph: 40 Years of Inez and Vinoodh' has been published, accompanied by an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag. The publication celebrates four decades of work by the influential fashion photography duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, featuring celebrity portraits and surrealist visions organized around 16 thematic connections.
The book and exhibition highlight the duo's significant impact on photography, challenging the medium's claim to truth through digital manipulation and traditional techniques like photomontage. Their work, which treats the human body as malleable and emotionally charged, redefines portraiture as a technology of transformation rather than mere representation, influencing how beauty, identity, and the body are perceived in contemporary visual culture.