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Video This exhibition marks the first retrospective of the entire body of work by Jan Groover (1943-2012), an American photographer whose personal collection became part of the Photo Elysée collections in 2017. Through a selection of archives from this collection, it not only explores the artist's New York years but...
Read moreVideo The project Everything is up in the air, thus our vertigo was conceived by the Swiss photographer Yann Mingard between 2015 and 2018. It marks a new evolution of the artist's interest in creating a "photographic diagnosis of contemporaneity", in relation to natural, technological, and social phenomena and their...
Read moreVideo Wishing to highlight the pioneering work of women photographers during the 20th century, Photo Elysée presents a significant retrospective dedicated to Martine Franck (1938-2012). Designed by the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, and co-produced with Photo Elysée, this exhibition, unique in its scope, consists of nearly 140 photographs, some of...
Read moreVideo Over the years, Lausanne-based photographer Mathieu Bernard-Reymond (France, 1976) has developed a practice with contours broadened by generative technologies and data manipulation. In this video, Mathieu Bernard-Reymond talks about the D'après Ramuz project. In an approach based on photographic exploration, he has chosen to combine extracts from the writings...
Read moreVideo The exhibition Jacques Henri Lartigue: Life in Color unveils a previously unseen part of the work of the French photographer (1894-1986) in Switzerland. While color is ubiquitous in the albums he compiled throughout his life, it was never shown or exhibited as such during his lifetime. Following an exhibition...
Read moreVideo The exhibition presents a selection of masterpieces from the history of photography, part of the collection of Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla. Based in New York, it includes over 1500 original prints by some of the greatest photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Through visual confrontations, the visitor...
Read moreVideo The exhibition Gus Van Sant/Icons proposes the first Swiss retrospective of the films and artistic creations of the American filmmaker. A genuine multi-disciplinary journey, it is divided into five sections, each in turn exploring an aspect of Gus Van Sant’s creative force and outlining the contours of a bountiful...
Read moreVidéo Luc Chessex lived in Cuba from 1961 to 1975. As a member of the Prensa Latina agency and photo editor for the magazine Cuba internacional, he was an involved witness of the revolution. The Musée de l'Elysée is presenting four series of photographs from that time: Cherchez la Femme...
Read morePhoto Elysée pays tribute to the career of photographer Luc Chessex (Lausanne, 1936). This documentary film Luc Chessex. A portrait was produced by the museum in 2023. Since 1961, Luc Chessex has traveled the world, camera in hand. The documentary, which delves into his vast photographic archives, traces the photographer's...
Read moreAdolphe Braun Adolphe Braun was a French photographer born in Besançon (France) in 1812 and died in Dornach (France) in 1877. In 1854, he proposed a collection of photographed flowers for industrial designers to the Académie des Sciences. Buoyed by his success at the 1855 Universal Exhibition, he continued his...
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