Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography is the oldest

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, opened in 1999. Huis Marseille was the first photography museum in the Netherlands when it opened in 1999; the Nederlands Fotomuseum in

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in a nearby building have opened since.Edo Dijksterhuis
"How Many Photography Museums Can a Country Have?"
''ArtSlant'', April 11, 2014. The museum is housed in a residence built around 1665 for a French merchant, and contains 13 exhibition spaces and a restored room in

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; the building was restored and the museum extended into the adjacent building in 2007–2013.David Rosenberg, "Jacqueline Hassink: ''View, Kyoto''": "Our Seven Favorite Photography Shows From 2014"
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'', December 26, 2014. Exhibitions generally use the entire space and have mostly featured

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. They have included

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's ''Sochi Project'', photographs of

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, Sarkis' ''Ring Portraits'', work by

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. Three hundred years later, the original seventeenth-century layout of the house—consisting of a 'front' segment, a courtyard, a 'back' segment and garden—is still largely intact. In September 2013, the museum was expanded to include the neighboring building at Keizersgracht 399, providing it with a total of fourteen exhibition spaces. In addition, the museum has a photography library and a garden with a garden house.

Exhibitions

Some of the exhibitions that have taken place at Huis Marseille: *

David Goldblatt David Goldblatt HonFRPS (29 November 1930 – 25 June 2018) was a South African photographer noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the period of apartheid.Weinberg, Paul.David Goldblatt: Photographer Who Found the Human in an Inhuman ...

: Intersections (2007) *

: The Power Show (2007) *

Edward Burtynsky Edward Burtynsky (born February 22, 1955) is a Canadian photographer and artist known for his large format photographs of industrial landscapes. His works depict locations from around the world that represent the increasing development of indust ...

: Oil (2009) * Digitaal? Analoog! ''met fotoveiling ten bate van fotografielaboratorium Aap-lab'' (2010) * First Light: Fotografie & Astronomie (2010) *

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: Soft Horizons (2011) * Yasusuke Ota: The Abandoned Animals of Fukushima (2012) *

Viviane Sassen Viviane Sassen (born 1972) is a Dutch artist living in Amsterdam. She is a photographer who works in both the fashion and fine art world. She is known for her use of geometric shapes, often abstractions of bodies. She has been widely published an ...

: In and out of fashion (2012) *

: ''Gouden jaren'' (2013) * Apartheid & After (2014) *

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: In Conference. Portraits of Dutch Administrative Boards (2014) *

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: Cor was hier (2015) * Stephan Shore: Retrospective (2016) *

Dana Lixenberg Dana Lixenberg (born 1964)Hay, David ''The New York Times'', May 30, 1999 is a Dutch photographer and filmmaker.Knight, Christopher ''Los Angeles Times'', May 28, 1999 She lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. Lixenberg pursues long-term proje ...

: Imperial Courts (2016) * Eddo Hartmann: Setting the Stage: Pyongyang, North Korea, Part 2 * Jeff Cowen: Photoworks (2017) *

Jamie Hawkesworth Jamie Hawkesworth is a British fashion and documentary photographer.Kin Woo,, ''The New York Times'', 28 August 2017. Accessed 28 November 2017.Joscha Steffens: Teen Spirit Island * Harold Strak & Willem van Zoetendaal: Amsterdam Stuff (2018) * Helga Paris, Céline van Balen,

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& Julie Greve: Futures Past & Present (2019) *

Berenice Abbott Berenice Alice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) was an American photographer best known for her portraits of between-the-wars 20th century cultural figures, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and ...

: Portraits of Modernity (2019) * Elspeth Diederix: When Red Disappears (2019) *

Deana Lawson Deana Lawson (1979) is an American artist, educator, and photographer based in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. Her work is primarily concerned with intimacy, family, spirituality, sexuality, and Black aesthetics. Lawson has been praised for her abi ...

(2019) *

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: The Autumn of Paradise (2020) *

Farah Al Qasimi Farah Al Qasimi (born 1991) is a photographer from the United Arab Emirates, living in Brooklyn, New York. She is known for her photographs of life in the Persian Gulf. Life and work Al Qasimi earned a BA from Yale University. In 2018 she moved to ...

, Frida Orupabo, Coco Capitán,

Myriam Boulos Myriam Boulos (ميريم بولس) (born 1992) is a Lebanon, Lebanese documentary photographer and artist. Her work has been published in ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue, Time (magazine), Time,'' and ''Vanity Fair (magazine), Vanity Fair'', among other ...

: Infinite Identities (2020) * Vincent Delbrouck: Champú (2021) * Sohrab Hura: Spill (2021) *

Luc Delahaye Luc Delahaye (born 1962) is a French photographer known for his large-scale color works depicting conflicts, world events or social issues. His pictures are characterized by detachment, directness and rich details, a documentary approach which is ...

: Le Village (2021) *

Charlotte Dumas Charlotte Dumas (born 1977) is a Dutch photographer. For the 2013 series ''Anima'', Dumas photographed the horses used to pull the funeral caissons at Arlington National Cemetery. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Art ...

: Ao (2021) *

Lindokuhle Sobekwa Lindokuhle Sobekwa (born 1995) is a South African documentary photographer. He is a Nominee member of Magnum Photos and based in Johannesburg. Life and work Sobekwa was born in Katlehong, a township, 35 km from Johannesburg, South Africa. ...

: Umkhondo. Tracing memory (2022) *

: Polaroid 54/59/79 (2022) *

Sabelo Mlangeni Sabelo Mlangeni (born 22 February 1980) is a South African photographer living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa. His work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Walth ...

: Isivumelwano (2022) *

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: Vijf lange meden (2022) *

Jochen Lempert Jochen Lempert (born 1958 in Moers) is a German photographer whose work is about the world of nature and animals. Lempert first studied as a biologist before turning to photography in the early 1990s. Accordingly, his pictures are marked with sc ...

: Natural sources (2022) * Nhu Xuan Hua: Hug of a swan (2022)

References

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