Since the foundation of Fotomuseum Winterthur in 1993, building up a collection of contemporary photography has been a major cornerstone of the museum's activities. To date, some 4000 photographs have been purchased, donated or given on permanent loan. Every year since 2003, parts of the collection are presented in specially curated exhibitions accompanied by a series of publications (Set 1, 2, 3, 4 …).
The online collection now provides a further opportunity of making the ever-growing holdings of the Fotomuseum Winterthur readily accessible to a broader international audience. The works presented online as publicly accessible reproductions are copyright protected. Users are invited to explore the ideas and working methods of some 300 individual photographers by browsing the index of artists and titles, or using the full-text search facility to find information about the artists and their techniques and to read commentated descriptions of the works in the collection.
The Fotomuseum Winterthur is also dedicated to documenting the application of photography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, analysing and collating so-called applied photography according to clearly defined criteria.
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