Tracing a career of more than thirty years, this celebration of the prodigiously talented Dutch photographer includes vibrantly colored portraiture, landscapes, still lifes, abstract compositions and fashion editorials. From her early African-inspired work to her more recent experiments in interventionist techniques, Viviane Sassen has gained international acclaim for her striking, dynamic images that explore a range of themes and subjectsfrom identity, gender, and the body, to race, fashion, and the environment. This retrospective book brings together both well- and lesser-known works and includes pieces from her recent series, Paint Studies, in which early photographs are reimagined with ink and painterly marks, and Venus and Mercury, a collection of exquisite photomontages based on the history of the Palace of Versailles. Illuminating texts by Dawn Ades, Clothilde Morette, Simon Baker, Damarice Amao, and Dan Thawley make this the definitive overview of an important and ever-evolving photographer.

VIVIANE SASSEN was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1972 and graduated from the Royal Academy of Arnhem having studied fashion, photography, and fine art. Her work has been published in numerous magazines including I-D, Purple, Dazed & Confused, Fantastic Man, VOGUE, Another Magazine, and Selfservice. Prestel has published a number of monographs on her work including Parasomnia, Pikin Slee, In and Out of Fashion, Umbra, and Hot Mirror.