First major monograph of one of the Netherlands most prominent women photographers of the 20th century. Emmy Andriesse (1914-1953) trained at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague under the pioneers of the "New Photography", Gerrit Kiljan and Paul Schuitema. The work she shot in Amsterdam and in Arnhem during and shortly after the Second World War now form part of the Dutch collective memory. They owe their fame not only to their documentary value but to Andriesse's speical talent for fusing social commitment with a feeling for the poetic powers of the medium. Her fashion, reportage, portrait and landscape photographs were published in numerous newspapers and magazines. She produced a magnificent series of artist's portraits for Willem Sandberg, the Director of the Stedelijk Museum, and shortly before her death she completed a photographic tribute to Vincent van Gogh.