The Fotomuseum Den Haag (The Hague Museum of Photography) is a museum in the field of

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. The museum was founded in 2002 as part of the

Kunstmuseum Den Haag The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is an art museum in The Hague in the Netherlands, founded in 1866 as the Museum voor Moderne Kunst. Later, until 1998, it was known as Haags Gemeentemuseum, and until the end of September 2019 as Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. I ...

and works closely with the Print Room of the

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Building

The museum is located next to the Kunstmuseum The Hague in the Schamhart Wing (1961-1962) designed by the architects Sjoerd Schamhart and J.F. Heijligers. This exhibition wing was built as an extension of the Haags Gemeentemuseum. The Photo Museum was expanded from 400 to 1,000 square meters in 2016 at the expense of GEM for contemporary art museum, also located in the building. This created the opportunity and space, in addition to the work of established names in the photography world, to show smaller historical exhibitions and the work of promising emerging talent.

Exhibitions

Each year, the Fotomuseum Den Haag organizes approximately six exhibitions on the most diverse periods, disciplines and genres of photographic history, whereby the focus is often on the image of man. In exhibition current photographers, such as

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, are alternated with overviews of classics such as

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. Underexposed and unknown reputations and oeuvres are prominently presented by the Photo Museum The Hague, such as those of Gerard Fieret, Willem van de Poll and the Dutch years of fashion photographer Erwin Blumenfeld. Socially relevant photo projects by contemporary photographers are regularly shown, such as the series on the

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, the intimate sexual intercourse between older people by Marrie Bot or the primeval landscapes threatened by man by Anja de Jong.

Annual photo price

From 2006 to 2015, the museum was associated with an important annual photo prize: the Silver Camera for press photography in the Netherlands. Also from 2009 to 2013, The Photo Academy Award was also associated with the Fotomuseum Den Haag.

Organization

The Photo Museum The Hague is part of the Kunstmuseum The Hague. The director is Benno Tempel, deputy director is Hans Buurman and the curator of the photo museum is

Wim van Sinderen Wim van Sinderen (born 10 January 1958) is a Dutch journalist and curator, working as photography curator at the Fotomuseum Den Haag. Live and work Van Sinderen was born in Dokkum on January 10, 1958. From 1976 to 1982 he attended the Teacher T ...

.Jos Jägers.
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Fotomuseum Den Haag The Fotomuseum Den Haag (The Hague Museum of Photography) is a museum in the field of photography in The Hague. The museum was founded in 2002 as part of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag and works closely with the Print Room of the Leiden University Librar ...

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External links

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