Three parallel shows
Major names beside photographers just starting.
Otter โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท FaceMePLS from The Hague, The Netherlands โ CC BY 2.0 ยท Hmamsterdahm โ CC BY 4.0 ยท Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). โ CC BY-SA 4.0
Day one for the big three in the Museum Quarter: the Rijksmuseum first, the most important and needing at least three hours, then the Van Gogh with a timed booking. Day two for the house and the story: the Anne Frank House, where advance booking is essential, the Portuguese Synagogue, and one canal house such as Willet-Holthuysen. Foam, Moco and the Stedelijk are additions for a third day, according to taste.
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Foam is a museum devoted to photography alone, occupying a canal house on the Keizersgracht that was gutted internally and reshaped as a sequence of white galleries โ a seventeenth-century facade with an entirely contemporary interior. The museum has no permanent collection but a programme of exhibitions: three or four running in parallel and changing every few months, combining major names from the history of photography with young photographers at the start of their careers. That means what you see depends entirely on when you come โ check the programme before going. What distinguishes Foam is that it treats photography as a medium in its own right rather than an annexe of modern art: photojournalism, documentary, portraiture and digital experiment. It publishes a quarterly magazine known internationally in the field. It is relatively small and an hour covers it, and its position in the canal belt makes it easy to fold into a walk.
Major names beside photographers just starting.
Journalism, documentary and portraiture on their own terms.
Keizersgracht 609, 1017 Amsterdam