This international exhibition gives us an unique image of one of the most important and fruitful periods in the history of photography: the seventies. Finally photography was to be accepted as an art discipline, colour was allowed and the raw daily life became a full worthy theme. The 70s show brings icons such as Cindy Sherman, Christian Boltanski, Sophie Calle, David Goldblatt, Willian Eggleston and Eugene Richards, which never before where to be seen on the same show. Do not miss this exhibition, only showing at the Fotomuseum.
When the financial crisis of 2009 was at its peak, Reinier Gerritsen photographed people in the subway between Wall Street and Grand Central Station, New York. We see masses of introvert subway travellers in unposed group portraits. They reflect the collective feelings of a world in shock, not understanding that things have reached the stage where the global financial system has collapsed.
“If only I could capture that on camera!” A phrase that so often crosses our minds when we see something remarkable out of the corner of our eye. André Thijssen has that camera on him and takes pictures and shoots films anytime and anywhere from all the things we usually walk past.
At 3 p.m. the installation ‘Nabeelden’ from artist Rein Jelle Terpstra, with stories of photographs that have never been made, will be officially presented in the museum. The installation contains stories of Hans Aarsman, Ad van Denderen and Martine Stig. From this day on ‘Nabeelden’ will be permanently on show in the museum.
Sundayafternoon September 12, 2010 photographer Reinier Gerritsen will be at the museum to tell his personal stories with the photographs in the exhibition Wall Street Stop.
Photographer Andrea Stultiens tells the story of Kaddu Wasswa, a 77 year old man living in Uganda, through his own and old photographs and through new photographs made by Stultiens herself and his grand son Arthur C. Kitisu. Wasswa’s personal history reflects the history of Uganda, the country that will be celebrating its 50 years of independence from the British in 2012.
ANGRY focuses on the interpretation of the angry and obstinate adolescents. Protest, resistance and (radical) action in our society is shown from three different aspects: by the youth themselves, by the media and through the interpretation of artists and photographers.
In The Netherlands there isn’t a permanent place where photo history is shown. The Fotomuseum fills this void with a new exhibition where aspects of the Dutch photography history is shown by the collection of the Fotomuseum.
New Topographics is a re-make of an influential exhibition about new landscape photography that was taking place at the George Eastman House in Rochester (USA) in 1975. With over a 100 vintage photos of 10 photographers like Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and so on.
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