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Julian Schnabel

“Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it…” Julian Schnabel (b. 1951) became famous in the 1980s as a vigorously gestural Neo-Expressionist painter. The Hague Museum of Photography is now the first museum anywhere in the world to present eighty large-format...

Zilveren Camera 2010

About to be awarded for the 61st time, the Silver Camera award is the foremost prize for press photographers in the Netherlands. The winner of the prize for the best news photo of 2010 will be announced on Sunday 23 January at the Hague Museum of Photography. The award ceremony will also include the presentation of the Canon Prize for Innovative Photojournalism in the Netherlands and the Dutch...

Emiel van Moerkerken (1916-1995)

The role of Emiel van Moerkerken in the history of Dutch photography is highly important but hard to sum up. In the 1960s, he made reportage-type photos for Dutch Salvation Army magazine Strijdkreet, while at the same time snapping provocative nudes for satirical magazine Gandalf. In the 1930s and ’40s, his work was mainly Surrealist in nature. He was fascinated by the relationship between...

Gare du Nord

Paris was where it was at. It was the place to be. For decades the sparkling nightlife and intellectual ferment of the French capital attracted writers and artists from around the world. Among them were Dutch photographers, who flocked to Paris to capture romantic images of life in the city’s streets. In this exhibition, pictures snapped by photographers like Henri Berssenbrugge, Emmy Andriesse...

Silver Camera 2011

About to be awarded for the 63rd time, the Silver Camera award is the foremost prize for press photographers in the Netherlands. The winner of the prize for the best news photo of 2011 will be announced on Sunday 22 January at the Hague Museum of Photography. The award ceremony will also include the presentation of two other photo prizes: the Canon Prize for Innovative Photojournalism in the...

Yes Naturally

In Yes Naturally, humans are no longer the centre of the world. The international art event Yes Naturally will open on 15 March around the Gemeentemuseum Den Hague. More than 80 artists will use this grand-scale exhibition to present surprising partnerships between humans, nature and technology. The results are both liberating and hilarious: you can design your own pet, fungi turn out to be our...

Antoine d’Agata

At the Hague Museum of Photography, the difference between day and night characterizes the next exhibition and first overview of the internationally recognized French photographer Antoine d’Agata (b. 1961). By day, d’Agata produces journalistic assignments. Daytime presents vivid portraits, journalistic photographs from the Middle East with bombed cities and mass graves, and architectural images...

PIETER HUGO

The South African photographer Pieter Hugo’s (Johannesburg, 1976) monumental photographs, centred around contemporary Africa, are now well known around the world. He has already won numerous awards including the KLM Paul Huf award in 2008 and was recently nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012. The Hague Museum of Photography will be the first museum to exhibit a comprehensive...

Arnold Newman (1918-2006)

Margaret Bourke-White

In the male-dominated world of early twentieth-century photojournalism, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a striking exception to the rule. She was the first woman to work for Fortune and Life Magazine. In Russia, she photographed a smiling Stalin and in Georgia the aged mother of the dictator. In 1941, when the first German bombs fell on Moscow, Bourke-White was the only foreign...