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Photography Museum Amsterdam
I visited the Photography Museum in Amsterdam which mainly had two temporary exhibitions on at the time when I visited, Larry Clark - Tulsa & Teenage Lust and Don't Stop Now: Fashion Photography Next.
Larry Clark - Tulsa & Teenage Lust
These particular works of his consisted of nudity, sex, violence or the impression of violence and drugs around teenagers in the 80's. Some images were shocking and originally we were not sure if they were set up by Larry Clark or if they were real. We read into the background of his work and in more detail of his photographs and discovered that they were real. It was so surreal the photographs were so raw and harsh especially as the majority of the subjects were only teenagers. The essence of drug use and the scale in which the drug use seemed so present was scary.
All the photographs were in black and white, which made some of them kind of beautiful with the raw harsh openness of the image, it really helped express that you were actually seeing somebodies life.
Don't Stop Now: Fashion Photography Next.
The other exhibition was very different, Don't Stop Now was fun, bold, playful and experimental. A lot of it was photographs worked over with design software, screen prnting, drawing and paints. Sometimes the playful element was placed onto the model before the photograph was taken.
Daniel Sannwald
Untitled, 2008
The element I most enjoyed about this exhibition is the experimental playfulness with the photographs and colour and the different ways to display the images. It comes across as so fun and care free.
Ruvan Wijesooriya
Grid print (Annabelle), NYC, 2012
This image was one of my favourites as the grid print made it stand out from the others, I also just really love the simplicity of the black and white and how the lighting has struck her and captured her so classically.
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