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Partners A coproduction between the Musée de l’Elysée and the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, the exhibition William Eggleston, From Black and White to Color has been made possible thanks to the Eggleston Artistic Trust, Memphis, the Wilson Centre for Photography, London, the Gagosian Gallery, Paris and the Rose Gallery, Santa Monica....

Keystone Album To mark the centenary of the Tramp, Editions Xavier Barral and the Musée de l’Elysée are publishing a new album from the Chaplin Photographic Archives: the Keystone Album. It depicts Chaplin’s first films in front of Keystone’s cameras in 1914. The 795 stills portray the birth of a...

Credits Curators The exhibition is curated by Matthieu Orléan from La Cinémathèque française. Dedicated to the work of Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai, this exhibition is a coproduction with the Swiss Film Archive, the Cinemathèque française and Galeries, Brussels. Created from his archives, this multimedia project explores forty years of work,...

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 [Search...

Gilles Peress has intransigently documented the darkest chapters of modern history, from the Troubles in Northern Ireland to the mass graves in Bosnia and Rwanda. In 1979, he went to Iran to photograph the revolution at its height, during the hostage crisis at the US embassy in Tehran. He captured...

Winner of the 2009 HSBC Foundation for Photography Prize, and exhibited in reGeneration2 at Musée de l’Elysée the following year, Lausanne photographer Matthieu Gafsou has distinguished himself through his formal and critical approach to the contemporary urban landscape. Subsequent works, such as Alpes (2008-2012) - a collection of perspectives that...

“In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour.” Photographer Philippe Halsman had an exemplary career. Over...

Like most museums, the Musée de l’Elysée has in its collection a certain number of works labeled “anonymous”. Little or nothing is known about the creators of these photographs. It is sometimes possible to catch a brief glimpse of the identity of these unknown photographers by means of the subject,...

In November 2010, Paolo Woods settled in Les Cayes, a city in the south of Haiti. STATE is an exhibition that recounts this islander experience. With an ambition that is both poetic and journalistic, it draws from the universal scope of a national adventure that concerns us more than we...

New York, 2003, spectacular security frenzy around the President of the Swiss Confederation Pascal Couchepin – a striking image to the eye of the photographer present at the scene. Christian Lutz thus invited himself in the suitcases of the ministerial delegation and documented its various official activities during three years....