Chinese in Amsterdam
1951 · Gelatin silver print
Image/paper: 35.5 × 29.6 cm (14 × 11 11/16 in.); Mount: 55.9 × 45.6 cm (22 1/16 × 18 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Emmy Andriesse
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The Photographer's Eye
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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Photographs from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1958–1959
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The Family of Man
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1955
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Postwar European Photography
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1953
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Emmy Andriesse was a Dutch photographer and filmmaker whose practice emerged in the postwar Netherlands. Working primarily in black and white, she documented everyday life, portraiture, and the landscape with a direct, unembellished approach that prioritized observation over intervention. Her photographs and experimental films address the human figure and social conditions of her era with compositional clarity and formal restraint. Andriesse's work remains rooted in documentary tradition while maintaining a distinctive visual economy that resists sentimentality.
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