Bart van Leeuwen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bart van Leeuwen

Dutch photographer and author

Date of Birth: 05-Feb-1950

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: photographer

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Bart van Leeuwen (5 February 1950, in Amsterdam – June 2017) was a Dutch photographer and author.
He published his first pictures in 1967, graduated from the School for Professional Photography in The Hague in 1969 and started to work as a freelance photographer in 1971.
Inspired by film noir, Italian neorealism and photographers like Avedon, Brassaï, Frank, Kertész, Lartigue, Newton and Penn he developed a narrative, cinematographic style, linking facts and fiction.
He published "Nabelichting", an autobiographical novel, in 2012, and "Niets is Echt", a book about photography and reality, in 2015.
Due to a neuromuscular disorder he ceased the creation of new photographic works in 2005 and until his death lived with his wife and son just outside Amsterdam.