[alt-photo] Re: Pictorialism show - or, not the worst place to ink a bromoil

[jacques verschuren]

Kees,

A welcome addition, thank you!

Jacques

>> There's a great Pictorialism show at the Dutch Rembrandthuis...12  
>> Dutch photographers searching for the Rembrandt atmosphere in early  
>> photography in 100 images
>> Jacques Verschuren
>
> Thanks for mentioning this Jacques,
>
> There's also an english version:
> http://www.rembrandthuis.nl/cms_pages/index_sub.php?url=actueel_en.php&path=1,0,0&nav_lang=en
>
> The exhibition shows indeed a wide selection of Dutch pictorialist  
> photographers from the late 19th and the early 20th century. The  
> exhibition consists of prints from the Leiden University Special  
> Collections. Their photocollection is the oldest institutional  
> photocollection in the Netherlands. An important focus of the  
> collection has allways been technique oriented. Thats why there are   
> large numbers of gum, platinum carbon and bromoilprints  on display  
> in the Rembrandthouse.
>
> I have been at the opening, last wednesday, and if anyone is going  
> to the Netherlands it's absolutely worth a visit. The Rembrandthouse  
> is the house Rembrandt worked and lived. You  can also visit the  
> house and Rembrandt's studio where he painted many of his works.
>
> If you visit the exhibition don't miss the introduction film on  
> display there. In this film you can, among other information, see me  
> inking a bromoil. And where was I asked to do this? Yes... in   
> Rembrandt's studio!
>
> If you have some more time left, don't miss another interesting  
> exhibition in Amsterdam. At a walking distance from the  
> Rembrandthouse you can visit: Amsterdam 1845 – 1875, The First  
> Photographs, on display in the Municipal Archives. The exhibition is  
> around a series of early photographs Benjamin Brecknell Turner made  
> in Amsterdam, but shows many more prints by local and foreign  
> photographers from these years.
>
> http://stadsarchief.amsterdam.nl/english/exhibitions/index.en.html
>
> In The Hague you can still (until April 16) visit another selection  
> from the Leiden collection: Fotografie! With a selection as wide as  
> the history of photography: from daguerreotyps to contemporary  
> prints (even gum).
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yefbmew
>
> kees
> _______________________________________________
> Alt-photo-process-list | http://altphotolist.org/listinfo