Dress to impress : the photo collection of Gerrit Jan Vos (1962-2017)

IHLIA has held the Vos photo collection since 2018. It is an excellent extension of and supplement to our photo collections, in tems of period, provenance and subject matter. The Vos Collection contains more than 4000 photos, mainly dating from the years 1930-1950, with photographs from Germany as well as England and the United States. They are amateur photos, largely of men in military uniform. The Vos Collection is named after the collector Gerrit Jan Vos (1962-2017). Vos was a homosexual man who thaught fashion in Rotterdam and Bielefeld, in Germany, and collected photos in his spare time. His fascination with fashion, uniforms and male beauty helped shape his photo collection.