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FOMU's image collection now consists of more than 900,000 images that illustrate the development of international photography and Belgian photography, in particular. The FOMU collects both historical and contemporary photography, art and documentary photography, as well as free and applied photography. The collection is also representative of the history of photography in terms of printing techniques and includes daguerreotypy, glass plates, autochromes, negatives, slide positives, contact prints and photo publications. In addition to international legends, it also contains a large number of leading Belgian names.
The collection started with the Association Belge de Photographie archives and those of the publication department of the company Gevaert. Over the years, the collection has made valuable acquisitions, such as part of Fritz L. Grüber's private collection, the Agfa-Gevaert Historical Archives and archives of Belgian photographers. The collection is still growing as the FOMU consistently purchases work by young Belgian talent and acquires images that tell the story of (Belgian) photography.
William Klein, St. Patricks Day, Rockefeller Center, Fifth Avenue, 1954 -1955, Collection FOMU, P/2002/196, © William Klein

Boris Mikhailov, Untitled, 1997-1998, Collection FOMU, 2016/16, © Boris Mikhailov
Alvin Langdon Coburn, The Edge of the Black Country, 1911, Collection FOMU, P/1997/114/4, © Alvin Langdon Coburn

Joseph Ernest Buschmann, Ossenmarkt, 1845-1850, Collection FOMU, P/1977/34/7

Julien Coulommier, L'Homme coupé en deux par une fenêtre (André Breton), 1954, Collection FOMU, P/1992/243, © Julien Coulommier / SOFAM

Alexandre, World Ehbibition Antwerp 1894, Old Antwerp, Saint-Margriet and the dragon, Antwerp procession, 1894, stereo card Collection FOMU, P/1971/498/5

Max Pinckers & Sam Weerdmeester, Controversy, 2016, Collection FOMU, 2017/57, © Max Pinckers, Sam Weerdmeester / Gallery Sofie Van de Velde

Bieke Depoorter, Ou Menya, 2009, Collection FOMU, P/2014/323/2 ©Bieke Depoorter-Magnum Photos

Harry Gruyaert, Carnival, Antwerp, Belgium, 1992, Collection FOMU, 2020/86/6, © Copyright Harry Gruyaert

Dirk Braeckman, Self-portrait, 1989, Collection FOMU, P/1992/144, © Dirk Braeckman

Anonymous, Studio photo of a middle-aged man, bust, with bow around the collar., 1850, Collection FOMU, P/2014/274

Frères Géruzet, Vignetted portrait of a woman, Collection FOMU, P/1972/129/3

Annemie Augustijns, Refugees in blue building, Brussels 2009, Collection FOMU, 2017/46, © Annemie Augustijns

Zanele Muholi, Phaphama at Cassihaus, North Carolina, 2016, Collection FOMU, 2020/89, © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg, and Yancey Richardson, New York

Nick Hannes, Asylum seekers, Athens, Greece, Collection FOMU, 2015/34/4, © Nick Hannes / SOFAM
Nadar, Mademoiselle Yvonne Lévy, 1892, Collection FOMU, P/1996/130/2

Eadweard Muybridge, Daisy jumping a hurdle, saddled, preparing for the leap, 1887, Collection FOMU, P/2002/14

Lynne Cohen, Untitled (Abstraction), 2002-2012, Collection FOMU, 2021/34, © Lynne Cohen
Jozef Emiel Borrenbergen, Wakende Vleugels (Watchful Wings), 1949, Collection FOMU, P/1973/164/2, © Jozef Emiel Borrenbergen
Germaine Van Parys, Albert Einstein on the Antwerp Scheldedocks, 1930, Collection FOMU, P/2003/7/2, © Germaine Van Parys / Stichting Germaine Van Parys

Anonymous, Group portrait of three students, 1870, ambrotype, Collection FOMU, P/1973/228
Jan Hoek, Maria (33 years), animal keeper. 2nd choice, 2013, Collection FOMU, 2016/6/2, © Jan Hoek

Tom Callemin, Examination, 2015, Collection FOMU, 2016/12, © Tom Callemin

Vincent Delbrouck, Sweetest things, 2016, Collection FOMU, 2020/45 © Vincent Delbrouck

Freya Maes, Antwerpen: Grote Markt., 1994, Collection FOMU, P/1995/47/42, © Freya Maes

Lucas Leffler, Old Factory, 2017, Collection FOMU 2020/10, © Lucas Leffler

Léonard Misonne, Anvers sous la Pluie, 1932, Collection FOMU, P/1967/44
W. & D. Downey, The Misses Dene, circa 1893, Collection FOMU, P/1972/20/1
Man Ray, Solarisation Fingers, 1931, Collection FOMU, P/1978/150/25, © Man Ray / SABAM

William Henry Fox Talbot, Leaves, 1840, Collection FOMU, P/1971/4/2

Sébastien Reuzé, Soleil#01-06-F08, 2017, Collection FOMU, 2020/76 © Sébastien Réuze

Paul Sano, Skull of a feline (glass plate positive), 1909, Collection FOMU