Rijksmuseum (NL) - Modern Times - 2014
“Modern Times outlines the spectacular and unstoppable growth of photography in the twentieth century, using over 300 highlights from the Rijksmuseum's photo collection”.
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After the successful reopening of the Rijksmuseum in April of 2013, the museum’s brand new Philips Wing reopened with the 'Modern Times' photography exhibition, a major survey of twentieth-century photography compiled from the Rijksmuseum’s collection.
This collection has grown spectacularly, particularly during the last decade, and now includes many masterpieces by world-famous photographers including André Kertész, Brassaï, Robert Capa, László Moholy-Nagy, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Weegee, William Klein, Cas Oorthuys, and Eva Besnyö.
In this exhibition, my work has been presented under ‘City-view in general; Veduta’ and ‘Experiments and Studies’. An interview on NPO national television was part of the game.
With more than 350 photographs, the accompanying book 'Modern Times. Photography in the 20th Century' forms an impressive overview of the developments that took place during the twentieth century in photography, which grew by leaps and bounds into the ubiquitous and influential medium that we know today. The Rijksmuseum collection, with over 20.000 of 20th century photographs, contains several of my photoworks created over the years.