I’m not sure why there came to be two significant photo museums in Amsterdam, but it’s apparent that the city can easily sustain the pair. They are quite different physically, though both behind the classic Amsterdam canal-facing house fronts. While FOAM was founded in 2001, Huis Marseille beat it to the street by two years […]
Monthly Archives: September 2017
Two hundred prints by the late, more than great Andre Kertesz are displayed as “Mirroring Life” at the fotomuseum of Amsterdam (FOAM). The exhibit appears in coordination with the Jeu de Paume in Paris (the government of France owns Kertesz’s massive estate of negatives and prints). Kertesz was born in Budapest in 1894 and died […]
…an old friend (well, idol of mine) and tireless activist, the photographer Zanele Muholi, whom I wrote about two years ago, in September 2015, when her photos played a small but arresting part in a Pompidou Center exhibit. The current show, at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, is full on splendid and all her. […]
Tacky title, for sure. A crowd favorite among European photo fans is the Antwerp FOMU (foto museum) at Waalsekaai 47, 2000 Antwerp. One of its summer exhibits spotlights an archive happily acquired in 1996. Suzi Embo (b. 1936), along with her younger sister Lou, threw herself into photography in her late teens. She had lots […]
The historian's lens 