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Emmy Andriesse (1914-1953)

Emmy Andriesse (b. 1914, The Hague), who died at a tragically early age, is one of the most significant Dutch photographers of the 20th century. Andriesse recorded the 1944 famine known as the ‘Hunger Winter’, the Netherlands’ liberation by the Allies in 1945 and the first postwar years of struggle and reconstruction. Her haunting shot of the ‘little boy with the pan’ – a lone, malnourished child...

Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)

Over a hundred years ago, the American photographer Edward Sherriff Curtis (Wisconsin, 1868) set out on his great quest to discover the original face of America: in just over thirty years he produced 40,000 photographs portraying Indians from some eighty different tribes which had occupied the western parts of the Mississippi river basin since ancient times. He believed he had a mission to...

Anja de Jong

Dutch photographer Anja de Jong (b. Scheveningen, 1957) spent the years between 1992 and 2001 travelling the world to visit carefully selected areas where the ability of the original natural landscape to withstand the impact of human activity hangs in the balance. Using a large-format camera and black-and-white film, De Jong photographed around sixty such transitional situations, ranging from the...

Michelle Vignes

Over the last 35 years, press photographer Michelle Vignes has made a close visual record of the American Indians’ struggle for self-determination and of their daily lives on the reservations. In the 1969-1972 period, Vignes witnessed the occupation of Alcatraz, the first attention-grabbing action by the American Indian Movement (established in 1968). In 1973 she was present during the ‘71 days’...

From the Dark Room:

The Dark Room is an exhibition of work by three contemporary photographers, each of whom is – in his or her own way – engaged in an exploration of the portrait genre. Apart from the contrasts and confrontations revealed by the presentation, one thing will be immediately apparent to visitors: all three photographers work in classic black and white and they cherish the traditional craft of hand...

Oliver Boberg

The Hague Museum of Photography is the first museum in the Netherlands ever to stage an exhibition of work by German artist Oliver Boberg (b. Herten, 1965). Boberg’s serene photographs and short films bear witness to an everyday reality which seems to be all around us, but is at the same time difficult to place. Boberg photographs ‘non places’ which are part of our collective memory: archetypal...

G.P. Fieret - 80 jaar

Artist, poet and photographer Gerard P. Fieret (b. The Hague, 1924) has turned eighty this year. In honour of the occasion, the Hague Museum of Photography is organizing a major retrospective of his photographic works. Despite his ceaseless production of drawings and poetry, it is the thousands of photographs that he produced between 1960 and 1980 that form the jewel in Fieret’s artistic crown...

Marrie Bot

In this exhibition, Marrie Bot (1946) presents a selection of colour photos from her new book Geliefden – Timeless Love. They portray pairs of older lovers and focus on the erotic side of the home lives of ordinary people aged between 50 and 85. Bot shows that the way they enjoy their love and sexual attraction is not odd or unpleasant, but entirely natural. At the same time, she shows there is...

'Kindred Spirits'

This autumn, celebrated Hungarian author Péter Nádas (b. 1942) is to be guest curator at the Hague Museum of Photography. The museum has invited him to devise an exhibition throwing light on the development of modern Hungarian photography from the First World War era to the end of the 1960s. In addition to a line-up of famous names like Robert Capa, Brassaï, André Kertész, Martin Munkacsi and Eva...

Twins

Mary Ellen Mark (1940) can safely be said to be one of the most important photographers in the world today. In 2004 she won the World Press Award in the Arts and Entertainment Story category for her series Twins. Mark created this series using the Polaroid 20 x 24 camera. She set up a studio in a tent at the fairgrounds of the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio. Every August thousands of twins...