Amsterdam onze hoofdstad

Amsterdam onze hoofdstad is a comprehensive photography book documenting the city of Amsterdam. Captured by renowned photographer Cas Oorthuys, the work features 215 black-and-white photographs and 12 color images that depict the architecture, people, life, and traffic of the city during the mid-20th century. The book includes accompanying texts by Gerrit Kouwenaar and Jan Mastenbroek, providing historical and cultural context to the visual narrative. This specific edition, published in 1968 by Contact, is a revised second edition presented as a square 4to volume with gilt title spine and frontcover, pictorial endpapers, and a frontispiece map.