Museum of the Elysium

See also: Elysium

The Museum of the Elysium, located at Swiss Lausanne in , is entirely devoted to photography. It has eight showrooms distributed on four stages, a shop bookstore, a room of reading and collections of a great richness. More than 100.000 original pullings of XIXe and XXe centuries are preserved there: a single collection of interferential photographs of Gabriel Lippmann and a selection representative of important works like those of Francis Frith, Robert Wrapped, John Phillips or Mario Giacomelli. The museum acquired many work of contemporary photographers, often binding his policy of purchase to that of its exposures. By an important research task, various collaborations with the universities and other institutions, the museum is affirmed like a center of competence, in particular on the topic of the representation of the body. He proposes a programme of exposures of international scale which gives an account of the multiplicity of the photographic practices. He presents historical exposures sets of themes and retrospectives, famous photographers as well as young talents. The museum also carries out many exposures apart from its walls, in Switzerland and abroad

Y are exposed works of internationally recognized photographers, like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward Steichen, like those of Swiss photographers like Nicolas Bouvier or Ella Maillart.

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, Official site

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