Rijksmuseum | Amsterdam

American Photography | 7. Februar – 9. Juni 2025

Pressemitteilung

Im kommenden Frühjahr präsentiert das Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam die erste große Gesamtschau amerikanischer Fotografie in Europa. Mit über 200 Werken beleuchtet die Ausstellung American Photography die reiche und vielschichtige Geschichte der Fotografie in den USA – von intimen Alltagsmomenten bis zu größeren historischen Umwälzungen. Die Ausstellung untersucht, wie die Fotografie seit ihrer Erfindung im 19. Jahrhundert alle Lebensbereiche durchdrungen hat, ob Kunst, Reportagen, Werbung oder Privatleben.

Rijksmuseum | Amsterdam

American Photography | February 7 – June 9, 2025

The Rijksmuseum presents the first comprehensive survey of American photography in Europe. With more than 200 works spanning three centuries, American Photography will be an exploration of the rich and multifaceted history of photography in the United States, showing how the medium has permeated every aspect of our lives: in art, news, advertising and everyday life.

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Amanda Löpez (1982), Homegirls, San Francisco, 2008, lnkjet print, 320 x 435 mm, National Museum for American History, Washington (DC) © Amanda Löpez

Curio box made of cigarette packets with portraits of roommates, late 1960s, Wood, handwoven cigarette packets, gelatin silver prints, 140 x 110 x 195 mm, Collection of Daile Kaplan, Pop Photographica, New York Photo: Andy Romer Photography, New York

James Van Der Zee (1886-1983), Portrait of an Unknown Man, Harlem, New York City, 1938, Gelatin silver print, 244 x 203 mm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv.no. RP-F-2017-9; purchased with the support of Baker McKenzie © The James Van Der Zee Archive/The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bryan Schutmaat (1983), Tonopah Nevada, 2012, lnkjet print, 1017 x 1277 mm (printed 2021), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv.no. RP-F-2021-11; purchased with the support of Baker McKenzie

Anonymous, Family Standing beside their Car, c. 1957-1960, Chromogenic print (Kodak Instamatic), 76 x 76 mm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. no. RP-F-2023-26-7

Sally Mann (1951), Jessie #, 2006, Gelatin silver print, 1235 x 978 mm, Virginia Museum for Fine Arts, Richmond, inv. no. 2006.13; Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Fund © Sally Mann

Bruce Wrighton (1950-1988), Portrait of a woman, Binghampton, NY ('Woolworth Shopper'), Chromogenic print, 254 x 202 mm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. no. RP-F-2009-151; purchased with the support of Baker McKenzie © Estate of Bruce Wrighton, Courtesy Laurence Miller Gallery

Anonymous, View an a wooden house or barn with a man and a woman in front, c. 1870-1875, Tintype, 164 x 215 mm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. no. RP-F-2007-4

Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie (1954), 'This is not a commercial, this is my homeland', 1998 Platinum, lambda print, 476 x 609 mm, Courtesy of the artist

Schadde Brothers Studio, Display, sample or trade catalogue photograph for sweet manufacturer Brandle & Smith Co., c. 1915, Gelatin silver print with applied colour, 288 x 240 mm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv.no. RP-F-2014-24-3

Hy Hirsh (1911-1961), Untitled (abstraction), c. 1950, Chromogenic print, 251 x 200 mm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv.no. RP-F-2019-161; purchased with the support of Baker McKenzie

Robert Frank (1924-2019), Parade, Hoboken, New Jersey, 27 March 1955, Gelatin silver print, 206 x 309 mm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. no. RP-F-2022-91; purchased with the support of Baker McKenzie © June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation, from The Americans

lrene Poon Virginia, 1965, Gelatin silver print, 18.7 x 19 cm, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Gift of Charles Wang © lrene Poon Photography Archive, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries

Ming Smith (1951), America Seen Through Stars and Stripes, New York City, 1976, Gelatin silver print, 318 x 470 mm, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (VA), inv. no. 2016.241; Adolph D. and Wiliams C. Williams Fund

Bertha E. Jaques (1863-1941), Tree-in Governor Gleghorn's Place Honolulu, 1908, Cyanotype, 248 x 152 mm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. no. RP-F-2019-269; purchased with the support of Baker McKenzie