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Interview: Nederlands Fotomuseum with Martijn van den Broek and Grace Wong-Si-Kwie

On February 7, Nederlands Fotomuseum, the National Museum of Photography in the Netherlands, reopened in its new location: the historic Santos warehouse, Rotterdam, providing a state-of-the-art home for the collection…

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Featured Exhibit

20th-Century Still Life Photography: The Decisive Space

By Matt Damsker

The history of photography is intertwined, conceptually, with that of painting. Both mediums evolved from conventional two-dimensional representation to explore ever richer realms of realism, perspective, and…

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Collecting Resources

Contemporary Photography: Truth and 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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