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"American Photography" at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Runs until June 9: An Interview with Curators Hans Rooseboom and Mattie Boom
The recently opened exhibition "American Photography" is the latest in the long line of impressive photography exhibitions curated by Hans Rooseboom and Mattie Boom at Rijksmuseum. It has been years…
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Ilse Bing: A Woman of Consequence
By Alex Novak
Ilse Bing was born in 1899 in Frankfurt, Germany. She studied art history and mathematics at the universities of Frankfurt and Vienna in the late 1920s.…
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CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY: TRUTH & THE BURDEN OF REALITY
There has been a tremendous amount of discussion in the popular press lately about photography's relationship with reality. The recent discovery that a Lebanese freelance photographer with more than a decade…
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