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Willem van de Poll (1895-1970)

Willem van de Poll worked as a photojournalist for Dutch and foreign news magazines like Panorama and Spiegel and conducted fashion shoots for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, but was best known in the Netherlands as the in-house photographer of the Dutch royal family. The National Archives of the Netherlands and the Hague Museum of Photography now present the first ever major retrospective of work by...

Friso Keuris

Best-known for his portraits of leading actors, musicians and writers, Friso Keuris (born 1963) is also the only photographer ever to have had the chance to produce a series of pictures of the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Over a period of two years (from October 2001 to October 2003) he produced fifty photographs, both interior shots and portraits...

Loretta Lux

The Hague Museum of Photography is pleased to present a museum retrospective of the work of Loretta Lux. Lux has won international acclaim for her imaginary portraits of children. The artist has developed a unique methodology of image-making located between painting and photography which she uses to meticulously compose images of children possessed with a striking self awareness. Collectively the...

Dirk de Herder

Hague photographer Dirk de Herder died in 2003 at the age of 88. His heirs have recently decided to give the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag 40 of his photographs on permanent loan. This ‘promised gift’ now goes on exhibition at the Hague Museum of Photography together with photographs by contemporaries of De Herder from the museum’s own collection: photographers like Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lucebert...

Evelyn Hofer

From black-and-white to colour, from architectural subjects to the art of portraiture, from commercial assignments to autonomous creations: this retrospective of work by Evelyn Hofer (b. 1922) at the Hague Museum of Photography will demonstrate that this is a photographer with a complete mastery of a wide range of genres. Her painterly photographs are highly individual in style and a source of...

Days at the Parade

The Parade is the only peripatetic theatre festival in the world. In 2005 it celebrated its fifteenth anniversary. In honour of the occasion, photographers Koos Breukel, Corb!no, Annaleen Louwes, Hans Wilschut and Joyce van Tienen were commissioned to record their own highly personal impressions of the festival. This summer, the Hague Museum of Photography is exhibiting the impressive results: the...

Erwin Blumenfeld

In the 1940s, Erwin Blumenfeld became one of the world’s top fashion photographers. This first major exhibition to focus on Blumenfeld’s ‘Dutch years’ shows that all the ingredients for his later fame were already in evidence in the work he did in the Netherlands: a love of sexy, feminine models permeated by a slightly surreal and alienating sense of styling. People in 1940s and '50s America...

Gregory Crewdson

Since the mid-eighties, Gregory Crewdson (b. New York, 1962) has created six carefully staged photo-series in which he presents the world as an obscure cinematographic dream. Against the background of suburban America, he explores the fears, neuroses and desires that are deeply rooted in everyday modern life. In Crewdson’s complex and mysterious worlds, the inexplicable plays a crucial role. The...

The Silver Camera

This year for the first time in the prize’s history, the prize-winning photographs and pictures nominated for the Silver Camera award will be put on show to the public in a major exhibition at the Hague Museum of Photography.

The Dutch Association of Insurers Photography Prize

Living apart, living together. Risk or challenge? The fourth exhibition of the Dutch Association of Insurers Photo Contest for Dutch photography students will take place in the Fotomuseum Den Haag. The 2007 theme ‘Living apart, living together. Risk or challenge?’ inspired more than 70 students of five academies of Art to participate, with in total ca. 200 photographic works of art.