This page gathers photographers connected to Netherlands and traces how each links to a period and movement in the history of photography.
Born in Rotterdam in 1870, Richard Polak was a photographer who, in the early 1910s, constructed interiors that evoked seventeenth-century Dutch painting and staged figures in …
Born in the Netherlands in 1925 and deceased in 1990, Ed van der Elsken is known for Love on the Left Bank (1956), made out of his involvement with the bohemian subculture of …
Marnix Goossens photographs planted landscapes in Almere, palm-tree wallpaper, faux wood grain, windowsills, dikes, and revetments with the precision of a technical camera …
Juul Hondius stages photographs that resemble news images of migration and conflict: buses, borders, waiting crowds, and armed groups. Through field interviews, research into …
Dutch photographer and artist born in 1964 in Delft, based in Rotterdam.*1*2 Known for photography and video focused on the urban landscape, especially the pressures of …
Dutch photography duo, both born in 1969, who began working together shortly after graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in the mid-1990s. They are important for …
Dutch photographer born in 1977, known for portrait-like images of animals and, at times, vulnerable human subjects linked to labor, service, or mourning. Her work gained …
Dutch artist born in 1958, known for digitally composed photographic works that appear hyperreal while being entirely constructed from multiple source photographs. His work …
Dutch artist born in 1964, working with photography, video, books, archive material, and installation. His photography is important for late-1990s and 2000s image culture …
Useful Photography collects and edits practical, anonymous, and vernacular images, shifting attention from authored art photographs to the social uses and afterlives of …
Rineke Dijkstra is a Dutch photographer known for Beach Portraits, New Mothers, Almerisa, and photographs and videos of soldiers and young clubgoers. Through frontal figures …
Dutch photographer, born in 1972 in Alkmaar; studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Historical significance: she is significant because she made staged …
Dutch artist and photographer, born in 1963 and based in Rotterdam. Historical significance: she is significant because she extends documentary concerns into a more reflexive …
Viviane Sassen uses the lighting, styling, poses, and color of fashion photography in personal projects such as Flamboya, Parasomnia, and UMBRA. By covering faces with arms or …
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