Life is Strange
Huis Marseille Museum of Photography presents an exhibition titled Life is Strange that takes visitors on a visual journey to the past.
The exhibition features 235 photographs from the popular magazine, Het Leven, which was published weekly between 1906 and 1941. The magazine was known for providing a glimpse into the world far beyond the horizon of a generation that never set foot outside its own city or village.
Het Leven devoted significant space to so-called ‘photographic all-sorts from everywhere’. These included photographs of dramatic accidents, extraordinary events, distant peoples, remarkable inventions, unusual customs and large characters from all over the world.
Similar to images shared via social media today, these photographs were merely small visual pieces of human stories and events depicting the concerns of ordinary people in the years between the two world wars. Over time, some of these ‘petites histoires’, mainly taken by anonymous photographers became iconic images of historic milestones and events, while others remained accounts of daily life.
Bringing together a broad selection of Het Leven’s photographs, Life is Strange takes visitors back in time through these visual accounts of the past, giving them a taste of a forgotten world and allowing them to experience hundreds of extraordinary events long after their happening.
The exhibition will be on display until Sunday 6 September 2015 at Huis Marseille Museum of Photography in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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