Mirelle Thijsen is a Dutch photography historian and critic based in Amsterdam. She founded the International Photography Research (IPhoR) organization in 1988. Her academic background includes a doctoral thesis defended at Utrecht University in 2000 titled 'L'Album photographique dans l'entreprise au Pays-Bas 1945-1965'. Thijsen has served as an exhibition curator for numerous projects, including 'Hommages & Remakes' (1988), 'Grotesque' (1989), and 'Virtue & Vice' (1997-1998). Since 1993, she has written photography criticism for the Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad, and since 2002, she has taught the history of photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht.[2]
Grotesque: Natural Historical & Formaldehyde Photography1989 · Fragment Uitgeverij · book · EnglishISBN 9065790349Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with shows in Leiden (1989), Strasbourg (1990), and Senckenberg Nature Museum.
Exhibitions
1988Hommages & Remakesgroup
1989GrotesqueRijksmuseum van Geologie en Mineralogie & Natuurlijke Historie, Leidengroup
