Janette Beckman's "Rebels" is Heading to Amsterdam
Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam will showcase Beckman's era-defining portraits.
If you’re a music lover, a fan of photography, or a frequent reader of this newsletter you know about legendary documentary photographer Janette Beckman. If you’re none of those things, check out my brief interview with her at the top of the year for a little more context (and some top-tier creative advice.)
As she hinted in that conversation, “I'm super excited about an exhibition for REBELS happening in Amsterdam in May.”
We’re excited, too, because the details have dropped on the exhibition based on her monograph, REBELS: From Punk to Dior, which "honors the rebels shaping culture from the fringe,” as Hero Magazine once put it.
“Janette Beckman has always retained an outsider eye, a migrant’s fondness for rebellious eccentricity and strangeness.” - Jason King, Chair at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music (from the Foreward for REBELS)
Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam — also known as Foam— is hosting the exhibition which it’s calling “a tribute to activists, subversives, revolutionaries, and provocateurs driving positive social change.”
The museum celebrates Beckman’s influential style of portraiture as a “multi-layered artistic experience that reveals the core of individuals and communities.”
See you there?
Janette Beckman REBELS opens May 10 and will run until September 8th, 2024 at Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. For more information, visit Foam.