Charles-Henri Favrod

Charles-Henri Favrod is a Journaliste Suisse born the April 21st 1927 with Montreux.

After studies of letters to the University of Lausanne, it enters to the Gazette of Lausanne from which it becomes international reporter and critical to the weekly supplement the literary Gazette . He also collaborates in the Radio French-speaking Switzerland.

He is then director of collection to the Éditions Meets, where he deals with the series of the Atlases of the Voyages and the encyclopedia by cards mpde (Encyclopedia of the current world).

In 1985, it charged by the Canton with Vaud with creating the museum of photography with Lausanne. Under the name of Museum of the Elysium, this museum will become universally known. Charles-Henri Favrod will be the director until in 1996.

Works

Africa alone, Paris, 1961
certain Asia: From Hong-Kong at Tel-Aviv, Neuchâtel, 1955
the challenge of the desert; follow-up of, the return to Yemen, Cognac, 2004
the F.L.N and Algeria, Paris, 1962
hunger of the wolves, Neuchâtel, 1961
Japan - Japanese, Lausanne, 1959
memory of the glance, Lausanne, 1997
Museum of the Elysium, Lausanne: a museum for photography, Geneva, 1996
the weight of Africa, Paris, 1958
the Algerian revolution, Paris, 1959
the Sahara, Lausanne, 1958
the time of photography, Cognac, 2005
the time of the colonies, Lausanne, 2005

External bond

Official site of Charles-Henri Favrod
Site of the Museum of the Elysium

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