Category Archive: Photo

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28 Sep

Photos that expose “The Other America”

In the wake of the 9/11 commemorations, three major contemporary American photographers present unfamiliar and intriguing images from the United States. Pictured above:  Mitch Epstein, American Power, Plate-forme pétrolière “Ocean…
September 28, 2011 at 10:32 Leave a Reply
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25 Nov

Lust and Vice censored in Bern

A remarkable panorama on the portrayal of sin by artists over the last 11 centuries is being held at the Kunstmuseum Bern and the Zentrum Paul Klee. But the last-minute…
November 25, 2010 at 18:31 Leave a Reply
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27 Oct

Irving Penn as keen social observer at Lausanne Elysée

Benoîte Lab, Paris, 1950 @ The Irving Penn Foundation American photographer Irving Penn, whose images of sculpted beauties transformed fashion photography in the 50s and 60s, also documented the ordinary…
October 27, 2010 at 10:08 Leave a Reply
LiWei29levelsoffreedom
07 Sep

Vevey lives up to its ‘Images’

Branded “City of images”, Vevey lives up to its reputation. “Images” is a free visual arts festival that invades the lakeside city every two years. A myriad of international artists contribute to an ambitious programme that runs indoors and outdoors until September 26, featuring works by cult American film director David Lynch and by French art activist JR, whose monumental frescoes speak louder than words.

September 7, 2010 at 16:55 Leave a Reply
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10 Jun

World architecture descends on Rossinière

Deidi von Schaewen photos of interiors of huts in Capetown, South Africa against backdrop of Rossinière Balthus chalet In collaboration with Lausanne’s Federal Institute of Technology and the Vitra Design…
June 10, 2010 at 17:53 Leave a Reply
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25 Mar

Teen melancholy by cult Lausanne photographer

“Never young again” is the title of a cult web diary by 35-year-old Lausanne photographer, Germinal Roaux. From New York to Rome, from Mexico CIty to Lausanne, he captures the same troubled melancholy of adolescence, as if to arrest the course of time and forestall the passage to adulthood. His works are currently on show until April 11 in three Lausanne venues.
March 25, 2010 at 17:36 Leave a Reply
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08 Mar

Vigorous campaign to save Polaroid, including art collection

“Polaroid in peril” is an exhibition to alert public opinion to the possible dismantling of a major Polaroid photo art collection, part of which is housed at the Lausanne Elysée museum. It coincides with efforts by diehards to save a technology imperilled by digital photography and cut-throat investors. The Polaroids on show at the Elysée are a reminder of the naked power and beauty of images that digital adjustments cannot touch.
March 8, 2010 at 10:04 1 Reply
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05 Mar

Sally Mann’s innocent intimacy on show at Elysée

Sally Mann, the American photographer who rose to international fame in the 90s with pictures of her own children, does not court controversy. But by allowing us to penetrate her intimacy and discover her damp and troubling environments, we are pulled into her obsessions. The haunting retrospective ‘The family, the land’ is accompanied in parallel at the Elysée Museum in Lausanne by ‘Polaroid in peril!’ dedicated to the survival of a Polaroid collection.
March 5, 2010 at 11:22 Leave a Reply
mirkomartin
18 Jan

Powerful photos expose dark side of America

Two photography exhibitions in Switzerland put America under the spotlight. In Fribourg, a collection of pictures taken in 1935-42 by the greatest American photographers of the time documents the destitution of American farmers hit simultaneously by the Great Depression, draught and industrialization. In Bienne a young German photographer mixes Hollywood fiction with real life scenes captured in the natural decor of Los Angeles.
January 18, 2010 at 16:54 1 Reply
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24 Nov

Lausanne Elysee features iconic publisher Steidl

Gerhard Steidl, the world’s most prolific independent publisher of photography and art today is offered a major exhibition at the Elysée museum in Lausanne. The list of artists he publishes is like a celebrity roll call and includes the fashion diva Karl Lagerfeld and the legendary Robert Frank. But Steidl is not out to impress. He only wants to share his passion for images and get us to turn the pages.

November 24, 2009 at 09:33 Leave a Reply
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