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1908 Casparus Bernadus (Cas) Oorthuys is born on November 1 in Leiden.
1926-1930 Studies architecture in Haarlem and develops an interest in photography.
1930-1932 Employed by the Amsterdam municipal council as an architect, but loses his job in 1932 as a result of the economic crisis.
1932 Joins the Vereeniging van Arbeiders-Fotografen (association
of workers-photographers), founds the OV 20 combination for graphic
design with painter Jo Voskuil and moves into a studio at 20
Prinseneiland. He and Voskuil provide photographs and photo-montages
for brochures, magazines, book-jackets and posters.
1936 Co-founder of the photo and film section of the Artists'
Union in Defence of Cultural Rights (BKVK), and is involved in the
organisation of the international exhibition The Olympiad under
Dictatorship. A job as photographer for the weekly Wij and the daily
Het Volk marks his decision to make photography his profession.
1937 Participates in the organisation of the exhibition 'Foto '37' at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
1944 Liberation seems imminent, and a group of photographers -
including Oorthuys - decide to photograph the event. It took another
six months for the Netherlands to be liberated, however, and the group
later known as The Camera in Hiding (De Ondergedoken Camera)
photographed the ensuing Hunger Winter instead. In 1947 these
photographs were collected in the book Amsterdam tijdens de
hongerwinter (Amsterdam during the Hunger Winter.
1945 Co-founder of the photographers' branch of the union of contracted artists (GKf).
1946 Assigned by ABC Press to photograph the Nuremberg trials.
1947 Spends two months travelling through Indonesia for the
Contact publishing company, taking photographs for Een staat in wording
(a state in the making), published that July.
1951 Publishes Bonjour Paris, the first in a series of travel
paperbacks for which Oorthuys visits numerous European countries until
1965.
1955 Oorthuys and six other Dutch photographers participate in
the exhibition The Family of Man at the Museum of Modern Art in New
York.
1956 Travels to New Guinea for Bredero's construction company.
1959 Photographs in the Congo for the Belgian information
service, and then for Billiton in the Tanganyikan and Rhodesian ore
mines. The photo book Rotterdam dynamische stad is published.
1969 One-man show at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam to mark
Oorthuys' sixtieth birthday. The exhibition is accompanied by the book
Mensen/People.
1975 Cas Oorthuys dies on July 22 in Amsterdam.
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