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Museum in The Hague Shows Large-Format Polaroid Photos by Julian Schnabel

January 16, 2011 by  
Filed under Photography

THE HAGUE.- Julian Schnabel (b. 1951) became famous in the 1980s as a vigorously gestural Neo-Expressionist painter. The Hague Museum of Photography is now the first museum anywhere in the world to present eighty large-format Polaroid photographs that reveal a completely different side of the artist. Schnabel’s photographic work transports the viewer into his studios and into the midst of his famous friends and family. His moody, almost impressionist images turn the personal into art. Many of the photographs are [...]