After many months we visited at last an exhibition in the Foam Photography Museum in Amsterdam.
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donderdag 10 maart 2022
At last
donderdag 14 mei 2020
Panorama
Some views over Amsterdam seen from the attic of the Foam Photography Museum.
Always nice to have a sneak peek into the houses. From the archives of 2014.
donderdag 24 oktober 2019
Brassai
The foam Photograpy museum has an exhibition of French photographer of Hungarian origin "Brassai (1899-1984)". He made numerous iconic images od Parisian life in the 1930s. He was known for his nocturnul images of the city, but he also photographed high society, ballet, opera and intellectuals- including his friends Picasso, Dali and Matisse.
The photographer in his dark room.
donderdag 27 juni 2019
Alex Prager
American artist Alex Prager (1979 Los Angeles) has her second solo exhibition at FOAM photography Museum in Amsterdam.
Prager’s work is rooted in the photographic tradition of William Eggleston, Diane Arbus and Cindy Sherman, each of whom mastered the art of freezing the indeterminable everyday moment. Prager’s oeuvre consists of heavily staged, large format images using rich colours. Her photographs can be seen as ‘single frame narratives’ that capture enigmatic stories within the edges of the frame. Both her photographs and films are characterised by the absence of a linear narrative; each of the works recounts a bizarre, perpetual unreality.
It seems you look at stills of a movie.
zondag 30 december 2018
Food Photography
A double Mona Lisa after Andy Warhol made of Peanut Butter and Jelly in 1999.
I saw an exhibition "Feast for the eyes" at the "Foam" photography Museum in Amsterdam about the Story of Food in Photography.
donderdag 22 maart 2018
The other half
In 1870 Danish immigrant Jacob Riis (1849-1914) arrived in New York. With 21 years old and no money he felt involved with the bad circumstances the people in the Lower East Side of New York had to live.
He became an important journalist and a social reformer and is now regarded as one of the founders of the documentary photography.
The Photography "Museum FOAM" in Amsterdam has an interesting exhibition "The Other Half" about him.
zondag 9 juli 2017
No Joke
At the Foam Photograpy Museum in Amsterdam. Artists Roger Ballen (US) and Asger Carlsen (DK) had made a collection of twisted collages exploring the shadow corners of the human psyche.
It was a rather creepy exhibition, named "No Joke"...
Linking to "Shadow Shot Sunday2)
Labels:
Foam,
Musea,
Shadow Shot Sunday 2,
Tentoonstelling
donderdag 13 april 2017
Photography?
I always like to visit the "Foam" Photography Museum in Amsterdam but didn't know what to think of this exhibition.
To understand this mess, you have to read this explanation.
The next room was even worse, I had to find a way through.
Finally I found a real photo! Made by American photographer William Eggleston (1939) this was his first colour photo during a trip to New Orleans in 1971.
This was a nice serie "Los Alamos" about his roadtrip from 1965-1974 from Memphis to South California.
This toddler had found an alternitive way to cross the museum..
donderdag 9 februari 2017
dinsdag 5 januari 2016
Bush of Ghosts
In the Photography Museum "Foam" in Amsterdam you expect to see photos but at my latest visit the exhibition "My life in the Bush of Ghosts" looked rather different. All kind of items from nature were exhibited as here on the wall.
The dutch artist "Paul Bogaers (1961) uses all kind of materials as paper-mache and photos and creates a three-dimensional world with them.
He tries to find the inner world into images.
It all looked a bit spooky to me, but maybe that was the intention.
Linking to "Our World Tuesday"
Labels:
Foam,
Musea,
Our World Tuesday,
Tentoonstelling
zondag 4 januari 2015
Araki
In the FOAM Photography museum I saw an exhibition about Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940. I had never heard of him, but he is one of the most celebrated Japanese artists of our time. Ever since he started his photographic career in the mid-sixties, Araki has taken tens of thousands of photographs and published more than 450 photobooks!
During the past months, the 74 year old Araki worked on his new series ARADISE which consists of dark photographs of flowers and dolls. I was not so impressed by these artificial stills, it does not touch me so much..
His older work however with street photography was more attractive. What to think of these Japanese children doing a "Michael Jackson"!
I think it is hilarious.
Araki is also wellknown for his erotic works with bondaged women but I don't think Blogger allows me to show so I end with some skywatches.
woensdag 18 juni 2014
World Cup Fever
In the World Cup fever all over the world everybody is becoming rather patriotic so I thought this picture is appropriate for the occasion. The photo can be seen in the photography museum FOAM in Amsterdam and is made by Annegien van Doorn. In her multimedia installation "Domestic Science" she sets in motion everyday substances such as toothpaste, custard and mayonaise. Have a look at the FOAM link above to see how she explaines her art in little movie.
Anyway the Netherlands football team is playing today against Australia, we keep our fingers crossed!
vrijdag 30 mei 2014
A fence to hold on
The wooden banister of the stairs in the Felix Meritis building in Amsterdam of yesterday's post is a kind of fence to hold on.
Linking to Good Fences
donderdag 29 mei 2014
Amsterdam from above
A bird view of Amsterdam, the church and tower in the background is the "Wester Kerk". I noticed various roof terraces people have built on top of their house in the absence of a garden in the inner city.
I stood at the fifth floor of an old building "Felix Meritis" , which temporary is an annex of the Photography Museum Foam in Amsterdam, and had a look around over the city.
Unfortunately is was not a sunny day, in fact it was raining badly.
I had climbed all these old wooden stairs from 1788 to get the view.
In the attic was a scale model of the building, I stood in the back part with the sloped walls looking through the little windows.
dinsdag 22 oktober 2013
Photo exhibition
The FOAM Photography Museum in Amsterdam has an exhibition with an overview of forty years of photography of leading Dutch magazines as reflected by the work of five photographers.
I was very interested in this exhibition as for forty years ago I worked for the publisher of these magazines and it brought back such nice memories to see all the covers and photo's of long ago again.
This article about Route 66 in the US I remembered so well, it woke a deep desire in my mind to travel and once to see it myself. Many years later I did indeed.
The photography in the magazines was high standing and very original. This one is made by Bart Nieuwenhuys in 1991.
I was so going back in time that at home I went to look for some old pictures of my time working for the publisher. I will show you tomorrow.
zaterdag 27 juli 2013
Edward Steichen
In the Photography Museum Foam is a nice exhibition about Edward Steichen (1879-1973). In 1923, he was already a famous painter and photographer on both sides of the Atlantic, when he was offered one of the most prestigious position in photography's commercial domain, that of chief photographer for Conde Nast's magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair. The next 15 years he made photo's of all the famous people of that time. This is for instance Gloria Swanson.
I don't remember every name, but I like the fashion of the thirtees very much, it always looks so modern of this time to me.
There were some old magazines from 1931. I like old magazines, my first job, long ago, was working for a dutch magazine which I did for seven years. I had to stop when I got my first child, it was my own decision, in those times there were no creches, but I always regretted to quit the job. Anyway I raised two kids and after that I ended between the books and magazines as a librarian in the Public Library. So give me a magazine and you will not hear from me for a long time.
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