荷兰摄影师埃文•奥拉夫的摄影将不能言说和被忽视的东西低调地形象化，而绝非简单的记录。奥拉夫的最大特点是，将社会事件 、禁忌、资产阶级习俗以鲜明的风格和巧妙的模式展现在图片中。他以异常敏锐的审美直觉将主题隐藏起来，使观者在最初看到他作品系列时被隐瞒过去，然而到最后，他不同寻常的风格一定会对观者在视觉和情感上造成戏剧化的冲击。他注重背景和光线的设计以及超乎完美的构图，热爱构思严谨的情节，他以自己独一无二、完美干净的手段生动地捕捉了现代生活的本质。
25年的不懈努力，埃文•奥拉夫已经从一个捕捉现实的摄影师，蜕变成一个创造影像的导演

Erwin Olaf’s art visualizes implicitly the unspoken, the overlooked, that typically resists easy documentation. Olaf’s trademark is to address social issues, taboos, and bourgeois conventions in a highly stylized and cunning mode of image making. Alongside new and unpublished work, this book shows an overview of all the personal work that Olaf made during the past 25 years.

Book Synopsis
Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf delivers a velvet-gloved emotional impact with his highly stylized mode of image making. His work offers a blend of mid-century modern and noir aesthetics seen through a contem-porary, fashion-inflected lens. The ambi¬ence of the series presented in this volume—the first time these three bodies of work have been presented as a whole—is truly enigmatic and enticing. Olaf seduces the viewer via a man¬nered, restrained palette that is replete with faded avocado greens, golden-hued oranges, and subtle lilacs.
Each richly colored and sleekly com¬posed image offers a sly reinterpretation of Norman Rockwell-like iconography and characters, manifesting a nostalgia that both burlesques and wryly celebrates America of the 1950s and ’60s. As a whole, the mate¬rial investigates what critic Jonathan Turner defines as “Olaf’s recent fascination with the visual representation of such emotions of loss, loneliness, and quiet despair. . . . [He] plays games with the idea of cold reality versus cruel artifice, capturing that pre¬cise moment when innocence, hope, and joy are lost.”
This project was made possible, in part, with generous support from the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam; Hasted Hunt Gallery; and the Consulate General of The Netherlands in New York.