Amsterdam

Jan den Hengst (1934) went to horticultural college in Boskoop and later emigrated to Zimbabwe, Rhodesia at the time. There he got into arable farming and landscape architecture. He returned to Europe in the sixties and took up photography in Cologne. He has been working as a freelancer ever since. As well as providing photography for several publications, Hengst has written and illustrated his own book, The Dodo, the Bird That Drew the Short Straw. Jacques Constant started his career as a newspaper and magazine journalist in Holland and the Dutch West Indies. He now devotes most of his time to writing and editing books. He has had work published under the names Jac G Constant and Jacques G Constant.

Central Station; Exchange and finance; Dam and palace; From post office to shopping centre; The smell of tar and ropes; Montelbaanstoren and surrounds; Life in the 17th century; Housing in the 'twenties; Life after the 'eighties; Living on and near water; The University of Amsterdam; Hotels on historic sites; A sea of flowers; The Magere Brug area; Art and Administration under one roof; Rummaging in the Waterlooplein market; Jewish History Museum; Anne Frank house; Renzo Piano's 'shipwreck'; Sail Amsterdam; Nature in miniature; The piety of the merchant; The oasis of the pious woman; History of a city; Eating and drinking; Temple to Lady Fortune; Musical extremes; The Rijksmuseum; The past for sale; Advertising from centuries ago; Markets of Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh in Amsterdam; Modern art behind old walls; Amsterdam and water; Public transport; Bank as fairy-tale palace; Spaceship for Ajax Amsterdam; Schiphol.