BOOK
The FOMU library collection comprises more than 30,000 titles and contains relevant publications from the very beginning of photography to the most recent trends and developments. It contains books, magazines, brand and photographic documentation, auction catalogues and archives. The collection is divided into a study collection, a museum collection and a collection of precious works, and is used intensively by researchers from various disciplines.
The collection took shape with the acquisition of the library of the Association Belge de Photographie and the library of the company Agfa-Gevaert. It boasts books from the (inter)national photographic canon with an emphasis on Western European and Belgian photographers. The collection is the largest and most specialized of the Dutch-speaking region.
Max Pinckers, The Fourth Wall, Self-published, 2012, Collectie Fotomuseum Antwerpen, 2013-34
La catastrophe d'Anvers. 6 septembre 1889, Anvers: Section anversoise de l'Association belge de Photographie, 1889, Collectie Fotomuseum Antwerpen, 1968-545
Henri Cartier Bresson, The decisive moment, New York/Paris: Steidl, 2014, Collectie Fotomuseum Antwerpen, 2015-392
Exhibition of the Works of Industries of All Nations, 1851. Reports by the Juries on the subjects in the 30 classes into which the exhibition was divided, London: Spicer Brothers, 1852, Collectie Fotomuseum Antwerpen, 1966-60
Bieke Depoorter, As it may be, Veurne: Hannibal, 2017, Collectie Fotomuseum Antwerpen, 18078090
Sanne De Wilde, The Island of the Colorblind, Veurne: Hannibal, 2017, Collectie Fotomuseum Antwerpen, 18098129
Lucas Leffler & Benoît de Moffarts, La Belgique vue du frigo / België gezien door de koelkast, Brussel: Prismes, 2015, Collectie Fotomuseum Antwerpen, 18098297
Harry Gruyaert, It's not about cars, Antwerpen, Gallery Fifty One, 2017
Vincent Delbrouck, Some windy trees, Self-published by V.D., 2013
Marie-Françoise Plissart, Jacques Derrida, Droit de regards, Brussel, Les Impressions nouvelles, 2010
Thirteen million Congolese, Brussels: Inforcongo, 1959
Collection FOMU, FOMU21111260
Dries Segers, Fungi, self-published, 2019
Lara Gasparotto & Emmanuel d'Autreppe, Sleepwalk, Yellow Now-Angles vifs, Crisnée, 2012
Jan Kempenaers & Willem Jan Neutelings, Spomenik #1-26, Amsterdam, Roma Publications, 2010
Paul Casaer, people, bags, bushes & tracks, Brussel, self-published, 2001
Larry Sultan, Pictures from home, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995, Collection FOMU
Man Ray, Man Ray. Photographies 1920-1934, Paris, Hartford: James Thrall Soby, 1934, Collection FOMU F5357
Karl Blossfeldt, Urformen der Kunst, Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1953, Collection FOMU F155
Jeff Wall, A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), Oakland Ca.: TBW Books, 2023, Collection FOMU
Nan Goldin, The ballad of sexual dependency, New York, N.Y., Aperture, 1986, Collection FOMU
Gregory Halpern, ZZYZX, London, Mack, 2019, Collection FOMU
Georges Champroux, Brussels by night. 19 unpublished photographs, Maison Ernest Thill, Brussels, 1935, Collection FOMU, P/2002/1483, © Georges Champroux
David Helbich, Belgian solutions, volume 1, MediuMER, Ghent, 2013, collection FOMU
Nick Hannes, Red Journey, Lannoo, Tielt, 2009, Collection FOMU