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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.
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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
Ella Maillart and
Nicolas Bouvier were bequeathed to the museum. In 2011 it acquired
Charlie Chaplin 's collection of around 10,000 photographs.
[5] The museum also holds the collection of
Pierre Gilliard , tutor to the children of
Emperor Nicholas II of Russia .
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Distinction
2016 : Lucies Awards, Spotlight Award
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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.
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Prix Elysée
Photo Elyése has been awarding the Prix Elysée since 2014.
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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
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Notes and references
^
a
b
"Museum Spotlight: Q&A With Tatyana Franck From Lausanne's Musee De l' Elysee" . Huffington Post. 6 July 2015.
^
Fete ses 25 ans [
permanent dead link ] Regeneration2 Press Kit
^
a
b
Musée de l'Élysée. Collections. Photographers . Retrieved 1 November 2020
^ Le Temps , 25 février 2022 (ISSN 1423-3967, lire en ligne [archive], consulté le 8 juin 2022)
^
"Chaplin at the Musée de l'Elysée" . Musée de l'Elysée.
Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2021 .
^ Girardin, Daniel; Gilliard, Pierre (2005). Précepteur des Romanov - Le destin russe de Pierre Gilliard . Arles: Actes Sud.
ISBN
978-2-742-75401-4 .
^
"Le musée de l'Elysée récompensé" . Agefi.com (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-19 .
^ « [archive] », sur Nuit des images (consulté le 2 février 2015)
^ « [archive] », sur L'Œil de la Photographie Magazine (consulté le 18 décembre 2023)
^ Igartua, José E. (2001).
"Institut canadien de microreproductions historiques, Notre mémoire en ligne" . Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française . 55 (1): 158.
doi :
10.7202/005480ar .
ISSN
0035-2357 .
^ Fabien Gandon (September 2017).
"Pour tout le monde : Tim Berners-Lee, lauréat du prix Turing 2016 pour avoir inventé… le Web" . Bulletin 1024 (11): 129–154.
doi :
10.48556/sif.1024.11.129 .
ISSN
2270-1419 .
^
a
b Crépeau, François (2019-01-14).
"Le Pacte mondial sur la migration: une invitation à une mobilisation structurée en faveur des droits des migrants. Allocution prononcée à la Fondation Varenne, le 12 décembre 2018" . Revue des droits de l'homme (15).
doi :
10.4000/revdh.5660 .
ISSN
2264-119X .
^
"Emma Livingstone, lauréate du prix de la Fondation Paralysie Cérébrale au congrès de l'EACD" . Motricité Cérébrale . 44 (3): 72–73. October 2023.
doi :
10.1016/j.motcer.2023.07.001 .
ISSN
0245-5919 .
S2CID
261551199 .
External links
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