Photo Élysée

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Photo Élysée
Photo Élysée building
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Established1985
Location18, avenue de l'Élysée, 1014 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Coordinates46°30′35″N 6°37′58″E / 46.5098°N 6.6328°E / 46.5098; 6.6328
TypePhotography
DirectorTatyana Franck[1]
Websitewww.elysee.ch

Photo Élysée, formerly known as Musée de l'Élysée, is a museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, entirely devoted to photography. It is a government-supported institution founded in 1985 by Charles-Henri Favrod. It was housed in an 18th-century mansion until October 2020.[2]

The museum was temporarily closed from October 2020 until June 2022, as it was moving to a new building.[3] The new building is designed by Portuguese architects Aires Mateus. It has merged with two other museums; the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts.[1]

Succeeding Tatyana Franck, Nathalie Herschdorfer has been in charge since June 2022.[4]

Collection

The collection of more than 100,000 photographs covers the whole range of photographic history and technology from 19th century

daguerreotypes to contemporary digital prints. Amongst others, it holds collections of works by Adolphe Braun, who worked at the court of Napoleon III, Gabriel Lippmann, Mario Giacomelli, Lucia Moholy, Gilles Caron and Pieter Hugo.[3]

The entire collections of

Emperor Nicholas II of Russia.[6]

Distinction

Events

The Nuit des Images

Photo Elysée organizes the Nuit des Images at the end of June, which was held in the museum gardens until 2020.[8]

Prix Elysée

Photo Elyése has been awarding the Prix Elysée since 2014.[9]

Winners

  • 2015 : Martin Kollar, Provisional Arrangement[10]
  • 2017 : Matthias Bruggmann, A haunted World where it never shows[11]
  • 2019 : Luis Carlos Tovar, My Father's Garden[12]
  • 2021 : Kurt Tong, Dear Franklin[12]
  • 2023 : Debi Cornwall, Model citizens[13]

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b "Museum Spotlight: Q&A With Tatyana Franck From Lausanne's Musee De l' Elysee". Huffington Post. 6 July 2015.
  2. ^ Fete ses 25 ans[permanent dead link] Regeneration2 Press Kit
  3. ^ a b Musée de l'Élysée. Collections. Photographers. Retrieved 1 November 2020
  4. ^ Le Temps, 25 février 2022 (ISSN 1423-3967, lire en ligne [archive], consulté le 8 juin 2022)
  5. ^ "Chaplin at the Musée de l'Elysée". Musée de l'Elysée. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  6. ISBN 978-2-742-75401-4
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  7. ^ "Le musée de l'Elysée récompensé". Agefi.com (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-19.
  8. ^ «  [archive] », sur Nuit des images (consulté le 2 février 2015)
  9. ^ «  [archive] », sur L'Œil de la Photographie Magazine (consulté le 18 décembre 2023)
  10. ISSN 0035-2357
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  11. ISSN 2270-1419
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  12. ^
    ISSN 2264-119X
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  13. S2CID 261551199
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