With the exhibition The Memory of the Future. Photographic Dialogues between Past, Present and Future, the Musée de l’Elysée encourages contemporary artists to take a close look at photography as a medium, innovates as it reveals a 3D digitization technology developed by Artmyn, a spin-off from Lausanne’s Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), and displays its unique visual heritage.

The exhibition opens up a dialogue between the work of the pioneers of photographic techniques (the past), those of contemporary artists that breathe new life into these skills (the present), and avant-garde technologies that update these early processes (the future).

Works from the museum’s collections, contemporary artists and new technologies come face to face and join forces to give a brand new vision of the history of photography.

A book covering the exhibition is also available

Tatyana Franck, Musée de l’Elysée, assisted by Lydia Dorner and Emilie Delcambre

Jean-François Aimé

Takashi Arai | Israel Ariño | Anna Atkins | Patrick Bailly-Maître-Grand | Pierre Cordier | Bernd & Hilla Becher | Martin Becka | Binh Danh | Jayne Hinds Bidaut | John Dugdale | Dan Estabrook | Jean-Gabriel Eynard | Joan Fontcuberta | Dennis Gabor | Loris Gréaud | JR | Idris Khan | Laure Ledoux | Gustave Le Gray | Gabriel Lippmann | Vera Lutter | Christian Marclay | Mathew Brady | Vik Muniz | Oscar Muñoz | Eadweard Muybridge | France Scully Osterman & Mark Osterman | Andreas Müller-Pohle | Florio Puenter & Dino Simonett | Benjamin Recordon | Jerry Spagnoli | Joni Sternbach | James Turrell | Martial Verdier | Paul Vionnet | Jean Walther | Pierre Wetzel | Victoria Will | Nancy Wilson-Pajic