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FOMU – Fotomuseum Antwerp: An Interview with Tamara Berghmans, Curator of the Collections Department
On October 23, FOMU, Fotomuseum Antwerp will open the exhibition "Early Gaze; Unseen Photography of the 19th Century". Tamara Berghmans, Curator of the Collections Department explains, "The last exhibition FOMU…
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19th-Century Paper Portraits
By Matt Damsker
Photography's early decades were marked by an explosion of photo-portraiture in Great Britain, America and on the European continent. This exhibit collects a rich trove of vintage…
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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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