Complicated

 A photo I saw once in a Museum in Amsterdam.

Lust for Life

 The Netherlands Photomuseum in Rotterdam has an exhibition "Lust for Life" of Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) He is well known for his streetphotos in the sixties and the seventies. In 2016  his colour slides were discovered that were in a bad condition and had inmediately to be restored, 42.000 colour photos were cleaned and saved forever from destruction.

Here an example of the restoration.

It was a joy to see all the photos of the sixties in Amsterdam, the" flower power" and "sit ins".

Brought back nice memories of that time when we lived there too.

I had the same blue shoes with platform soles! And a mini-skirt too.

You can read more "here"

Photography

In the Dutch Photography Museum in Rotterdam.

I saw an exhibition "This is Cas", about  Dutch photographer "Cas Oorthuys" Click  his name for more information about his work.

The other half

In 1870 Danish immigrant Jacob Riis (1849-1914) arrived in New York. With 21 years old and no money he felt involved with the bad circumstances the people in the Lower East Side of New York had to live.

He became an important journalist and a social reformer and is now regarded as one of the founders of the documentary photography.

The Photography "Museum FOAM" in Amsterdam has an interesting exhibition "The Other Half" about him.

Photography?

I always like to visit the "Foam" Photography Museum in Amsterdam but didn't know what to think of this exhibition.

To understand this mess, you have to read this explanation.

The next room was even worse, I had to find a way through.

This room had a video with a troubled couple.

Finally I found a real photo! Made by American photographer William Eggleston (1939) this was his first colour photo during a trip to New Orleans in 1971.

This was a nice serie "Los Alamos" about his roadtrip from 1965-1974 from Memphis to South California.

This toddler had found an alternitive way to cross the museum..

Red, blue and yellow

Blue sky inThe Hague. In the background you can see the Photography Museum which is part of the Gemeentemuseum den Haag (Municipal Museum The Hague). As a tribute to the exhibition "100 Years Mondriaan & De Stijl" there, the windows were decorated with the red, blue and yellow marks.

Linking to "Skywatch Friday"

Photo exhibition

 The FOAM Photography Museum in Amsterdam has an exhibition with an overview of forty years of photography of leading Dutch magazines as reflected by the work of five photographers.

I was very interested in this exhibition as for forty years ago I worked for the publisher of these magazines and it brought back such nice memories to see all the covers and photo's of long ago again.

This article about Route 66 in the US I remembered so well, it woke a deep desire in my mind to travel and once to see it myself. Many years later I did indeed.

The photography in the magazines was high standing and very original. This one is made by Bart Nieuwenhuys in 1991.

I was so going back in time that at home I went to look for some old pictures of my time working for the publisher. I will show you tomorrow.

Vieux Paris

The Dutch Photography Museum  in Rotterdam has a beautiful exhibition of the French photographer Eugene Atget (1857-1927) with old photo's of Paris.  He is considered as the founder of the documentary photography and many of the buildings in his photo's of 1899 -1920 you can still find in the current Paris. Look here when you click on "open tentoonstelling" you can see the past and the present together.

Have a look at fellow blogger http://highpotech.blogspot.com/ for an action picture of me and hubby in Rotterdam.