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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. 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 icons, 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 Gevaert company. 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 the archives of various Belgian photographers. The collection continues to grow as FOMU consistently purchases works by young Belgian talents and acquires images that help to tell the story of (Belgian) photography.
Boris Mikhailov, Untitled, 1997-1998, chromogenic print, Collection FOMU, 2016/16, © Boris Mikhailov
Alvin Langdon Coburn, The Edge of the Black Country, 1911, photogravure, Collection FOMU, P/1997/114/4, © Alvin Langdon Coburn
Joseph Ernest Buschmann, Ossenmarkt, 1845-1850, salted paper print, Collection FOMU, P/1977/34/7
Julien Coulommier, L'Homme coupé en deux par une fenêtre (André Breton), 1954, gelatin silver print, Collection FOMU, P/1992/243, © Julien Coulommier / SOFAM
Alexandre, World Ehhibition 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, chromogenic print, Collection FOMU, 2017/57, © Max Pinckers, Sam Weerdmeester
Harry Gruyaert, Carnaval, Antwerp, Belgium, 1992, inkjet print, Collection FOMU, 2020/86/6, © Harry Gruyaert
Dirk Braeckman, Self-portrait nr 36-37, 1989, gelatin silver print, Collection FOMU, P/1992/144, © Dirk Braeckman
Anonymous, Studio photo of a middle-aged man, bust, with bow around the collar, 1850, daguerreotype, Collection FOMU, P/2014/274
Frères Géruzet, Vignetted portrait of a woman, carbon print on cabinet card, Collection FOMU, P/1972/129/3
Annemie Augustijns, Refugees in blue building, Brussels 2009 from the series Red, Yellow, Blue, Salon van horizontalen en verticalen, Lambda print, Collection FOMU, 2017/46, © Annemie Augustijns
Zanele Muholi, Phaphama at Cassilhaus, North Carolina, 2016 from the series Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness), inkjet print on wallpaper, Collection FOMU, 2020/89, © Zanele Muholi, Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg, and Yancey Richardson, New York
Nick Hannes, Asylum seekers, Athens, Greece from the series Mediterranean. The Continuity of Man (2010-2014), inkjet print, Collection FOMU, 2015/34/4, © Nick Hannes / SOFAM
Nadar, Mademoiselle Yvonne Lévy, 1892, photogravure, Collection FOMU, P/1996/130/2
Eadweard Muybridge, Daisy jumping a hurdle, saddled, preparing for the leap, 1887, collotype, Collection FOMU, P/2002/14
Lynne Cohen, Untitled (Abstraction), 2002-2012, chromogenic print, Collection FOMU, 2021/34, © Lynne Cohen
Jozef Emiel Borrenbergen, Wakende Vleugels (Watchful Wings), 1949, gelatin silver print, Collection FOMU, P/1973/164/2, © Jozef Emiel Borrenbergen
Anonymous, Group portrait of three students, 1870, ambrotype, Collection FOMU, P/1973/228
Tom Callemin, Examination, 2015, inkjet print, Collection FOMU, 2016/12, © Tom Callemin
Vincent Delbrouck, Sweetest things, 2016, collage, Collection FOMU, 2020/45 © Vincent Delbrouck
Freya Maes, Antwerp: Grand Place from the series Real Fake, 1994, chromogenic print, Collection FOMU, P/1995/47/42, © Freya Maes
Lucas Leffler, Old Factory - Steel Wall 01 from the series Zilverbeek , 2017, gelatin silver print on steel, Collection FOMU 2020/10, © Lucas Leffler
Léonard Misonne, Anvers sous la Pluie, 1932, bromoil print, Collection FOMU, P/1967/44
W. & D. Downey, The Misses Dene, circa 1893, Woodburytype, Collection FOMU, P/1972/20/1
William Henry Fox Talbot, Leaves, 1840, calotype, Collection FOMU, P/1971/4/2
Sébastien Reuzé, Soleil#01-06-F08, 2017, chromogenic print, Collection FOMU, 2020/76 © Sébastien Réuze
Paul Sano, Skull of a feline, 1909, glass plate positive, Collection FOMU
James Barnor, Self-portrait with a model during James Barnor's training at the Agfa-Gevaert laboratory in Mortsel, Belgium, 1969, Lambda print, Collection FOMU, 2022/24, © James Barnor
Louis Ghémar, Leopold I, 1856, salt print, Collection FOMU, P/1992/187
Anonymous, Portrait of a gentleman with a little girl on his lap, 1840-1865, daguerreotype, Collection FOMU, P/1966/3
Juliette de Lattre & Emile Vandewinckel, Studio portrait of a lady with bicycle, 1910, collodion printing-out paper, Collection FOMU, 2015/13, © de Lattre & Vandewinckel
Allain De Torbéchet & Cie., Le Jongleur (The Juggler), albumen print, 1862-1864, Collection FOMU, P/1970/92
Anonymous, Album of the Antwerp Osterrieth family, circa 1890-1905, photo album, Collection FOMU, P/2013/32
Anonymous, Family portrait in the dunes by the sea, Belgian coast, circa 1933, stereo card, Collection FOMU, P/1981/61/2
Lebohang Kganye, Ke Bapala seyalemoya bosiu ka naeterese II, from the series Her Story, 2013, digital print, Collection FOMU, 2023/34/2 © Lebohang Kganye
Geert Goiris, Mirror, from the series World Without Us, 2013, inkjet print, Collection FOMU/Flemish Community, BK/9260 ©Geert Goiris
Victor Guidalevitch, The 'Boerentoren' (Farmers' Tower) in Antwerp under construction, 1929-1931, gelatin silver print, Collection FOMU, P/1992/4, © Victor Guidalevitch
Alphonse Van Besten, Woman reading in the garden, 1907-26, autochrome, Collection FOMU
Underwood & Underwood, The famous Leaning Tower and Cathedral at Pisa (east), Italy., stereo card, Collection FOMU, P/1971/447/12
Anonymous, Man and woman in carriage (funfair photograph), 1906, tintype, Collection FOMU, P/1973/24
Rinko Kawauchi, Untitled from the series Illuminance, 2011, chromogenic pint, Collection FOMU, 2022/17 © Rinko Kawauchi
Sasha Stone, FEMMES, Collection d'Etudes Photographiques du Corps Humain n°1, 1933, Editions Arts et Métiers Graphiques, Paris, portfolio with 20 photogravures, Collection FOMU, P/1984/161 ©Stone
Aglaia Susanne Konrad, BT04, 2022, inkjet print, Collection FOMU, 2022/22/3 © Aglaia Susanne Konrad