A collection of 25 original photos by Igno Cuypers of the action "This Way Brouwn" by Stanley Brouwn. Published in Amsterdam in August 2020 by Harry Ruhé in an edition of 10 + 2 copies, This is nr HC 2/2, signed by Igno Cuypers and Harry Ruhé. Assembled in a blue archive box, and supplemented with facsimile of announcements of exhibition presentations.

During the first half of the 1960’s, photographer Igno Cuypers lived for a while right behind Willem de Ridder’s gallery on Amstel 47 in Amsterdam. Here he ran into several ‘avant garde’ artists. Stanley Brouwn was one of them.

Cuypers informed Harry Ruhé that Brouwn had asked him ‘sometime in 1964’ to document several street performances. He had been on the road with the artist during ‘two or three days’. Brouwn pays Cuypers fifty guilders (22.69 euro). Cuypers stated that Brouwn intended to make a work with ‘a movement from A to B’, but the first day the artist didn’t really know how such an action should be documented. According to the photographer, this is clearly demonstrated by the picture he took on Dam Square of this ‘proof action’.
At a certain moment, Brouwn asked a passer-by for a map with directions. Then, as stated by Cuypers, ‘things really got going’.

According to the photographer Brouwn wanted no more than ‘one or two prints’.
In 1965, one of Cuypers’ images was used for the invitation of an exhibition in Galerie Orez in The Hague.

In 1971, Gebr. König in Cologne published the book ‘This Way Brouwn 25-2-61 / 26-2-61’. However ‘This Way Brouwn” is never mentioned in catalogues and brochures published before 1964.