From July 11th through  September 14th 2008, Foam – Photography Museum Amsterdam – is presenting a retrospective of the Amsterdam photographer Kors van Bennekom (1933), in celebration of his 75th birthday. He began in 1956 - at the height of the Cold War – as a photographer for the communist newspaper De Waarheid (The Truth). He remained there until 1965. His photographs provide an exceptional document of average, hard-working people in a city of poverty, reconstruction and rebellion.

In 1966, Van Bennekom was involved in establishing the Uitkrant voor Amsterdammers, in which he illustrated the city’s cultural life for years. Van Bennekom took street photography into the theatre where he captured countless national and international performers, musicians, ballet dancers and cabaret artists in lively and mischievous images. At the same time, Van Bennekom continued to capture his own life in photographs that tell the unadorned story of a family which included his wife Ine, his children, grandchildren and himself. The street photographer, the theatre photographer and the family photographer all come together in this lively exposition – demonstrating a body of work which illuminates the development of The Netherlands during the second half of the 20th century.