reGeneration

"The Black female body has a long history of scrutiny in the Western imaginary. As early as the 16th century it was labelled as sexually deviant, primitive, subhuman, hyper-sexual and an uncontrolable erotic creature by the white gaze. The extensive records of its oppression are characteristically r...

Supervised by Anne Lacoste and Lydia Dorner reGeneration3 brings together fifty artists with twenty-five different nationalities, representing some forty art institutions. Their work is distinguished by their multidisciplinarity, ranging from printing and photographic series, artists’ books, multim...

The book presents 150 photographs mainly taken from the museum’s collections, illustrating the directions in which mountain photography has developed (science, tourism, mountaineering, art), as well as the formal aspects used by photographers from 1840 to the present (frontality, verticality and l...