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Jan Baetens and Tamara Berghmans talk about
THE PHOTO NOVEL

Video   •   06:00 August 2022

FOMU has a large book collection with photo books, magazines, but also (artistic) photo novels. It is about the latter that Jan Baetens (KU Leuven) and Tamara Berghmans (FOMU) will discuss. What is a photo novel? And what is the difference between the popular photo novels as we know them from magazines, and an artistic photo novel, such as those by Ed van der Elsken or Marie-Françoise Plissart?

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Video   •   03:30
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Longread   •   11:00
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FOMU lanceert online databank van Gevaert Papierproject 

Vanaf deze maand kan je de info die FOMU digitaliseerde in het kader van het Gevaert Papierproject zelf raadplegen via een Wikibase databank. Deze databank heeft als doel de informatie toegankelijk te maken voor een breed publiek.

Longread   •   03:30
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Longread   •   24:00
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