Gilles Caron, Battle of Dak To, Vietnam, November-December, 1967 © Fondation Gilles Caron
Gilles Caron, The Conflict Within
Gilles Caron embodies the ideal of the heroic reporter. Whilst proclaiming the presence of a developing crisis within his profession, the side effects on a human scale of his heroic engagements are clearly expressed though his...More
From the series « Underground Gallery Exhibition », 1966 Courtesy of the Artist, Musée de l’Elysée
Nothin’ but Working Phill Niblock, a Retrospective
Born in 1933, Phill Niblock has produced, over more than fifty years, a multidisciplinary work. His “Intermedia Art” features a combination of minimalist music, conceptual art, structural cinema, systematic or even political art,...More
Dorothea Lange, Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy, Arizona, 1940 © Library of Congress. Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Collection
Howard Greenberg, Collection
Howard Greenberg has been a gallery owner for thirty years now and is considered today one of the pillars of the New York photography scene. While his role as a dealer is well established, less is known about his passion for...More
Still Photography, Freaks, 1932. Courtesy of Praloran Collection, Zurich
Freaks, The Monstrous Parade
American director Tod Browning (1880-1962) has a particular attraction for the uncanny. Freaks, his cult movie shot in 1932, is inspired by a short story written by Clarence Aaron "Tod" Robbins. Set in a circus, the...More
Industrial Document, 1978. Courtesy of Luciano Rigolini. Collection Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne
Luciano Rigolini, Concept Car
Born in Ticino in 1950, the artist Luciano Rigolini’s interest for vernacular photography questions this particular mode of representation of the real. He carefully collects neutral images of objects or urban furniture, removed...More
Pieter Hugo, Obechukwu Nwoye, Enugu. From the series Nollywood, 2008-2009 © Courtesy of Stevenson Gallery, Kaapstad / Yossi Milo, New York
Pieter Hugo, This Must Be The Place, Selected Works 2002-2011
This exhibition will be the first major monographic show of South-African photographer Pieter Hugo, born in 1976. In addition to a large number of unrealesed works, the exhibition will also feature very well known series such as...More
Roger Ballen, from serie Asylum, 2008-2011 © Roger Ballen
Roger Ballen, Asylum
In Johannesburg, where he has been living since the 70’s, the American photographer Roger Ballen visited a very peculiar house four years ago, a house that has become the central focus of his present work. There he found a...More
Anonymous, Untitled, Polaroïd © Collection Polaroïd is Dead, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne
From the collection
The Musée de l’Elysée is one of the first museums in Europe to be entirely dedicated to photography. Since its opening in 1985, it has developed a collection of more than 100’000 photographs covering the entire history of the...More
Gillian Wearing, Self Portrait at 17 Years Old , framed c-type print, 115.5 x 92 cm, 2003. Collection of Contemporary Art Fundació ‘ La Caixa ‘, Barcelone © Gillian Wearing, courtesy Maureen Paley, London
BEHIND THE CURTAIN – THE AESTHETICS OF THE PHOTOBOOTH
When the first photobooths were set up in Paris in 1928, the Surrealists used them heavily and compulsively. In a few minutes, and for a small price, the machine offered them, through a portrait, an experience similar to...More
Karlheinz Weinberger, Zürich, 1962 © P. Schedler, Warth ( CH ), courtesy Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne
[CONTRE]CULTURE / CH
The Musée de l'Elysée offers an original exhibition on the theme of the counter-culture in Switzerland, expressed through photography and the visual arts from 1950 to the present day. The exhibition is a contextualization of the...More
