| | | |  | | | | Daido Moriyama, "Tokyo", 1982 © Daido Moriyama/ Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation | | | | | | | 6 September 2024 – 23 February 2025 | | | | Opening: Thursday 5 September 2024 6pm | | | | | | | 6 September 2024 – 23 February 2025 | | | | | | | ... until 12 January 2025 | | | | | | | ... until 29 September 2024 | | | | | | | ... until 29 September 2024 | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Kanagawa, 1967, from "A Hunter" © Daido Moriyama/ Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation | | | | | | A Retrospective | | | | 6 September 2024 – 23 February 2025 | | | | Opening: Thursday 5 September 2024 6pm | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | From "How to Make Beautiful Photos", 1987 © Daido Moriyama/ Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation | | | | | | Photo Elysée is presenting a major exhibition devoted to one of Japan’s greatest photographers. This retrospective, produced by the Instituto Moreira Salles (Sao Paulo, Brazil), will be making a stopover in Switzerland after showing in Berlin and London.
During the sixty years of his career, Daido Moriyama (born in Osaka in 1938) definitively altered our perception of photography. He used his camera to document his immediate surroundings and to visually explore post-war society in Japan. But he also challenged the very nature of photography itself.
His incomparable visual language is as highly acclaimed as his numerous publications, which are at the heart of his work. | | | | | |  | | | | For "Provoke #2", Tokyo, 1969. © Daido Moriyama/ Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation | | | | | | | Right from the start, viewers have been captivated by Moriyama’s photographic subjects, from the mass media and advertising to society's taboos and the theatricality of everyday life. He captured the clash between Japanese tradition and the accelerated westernisation that followed the US military occupation of Japan after the end of the Second World War. Inspired by American artists such as Andy Warhol and William Klein, the photographer brought Japan's nascent consumer society to life. He explored the reproducibility of images, their dissemination and their consumption. Moriyama repeatedly positioned his archive of images in new contexts, playing with enlargements, cropping and image resolution. Even today, his pioneering artistic spirit and visual intensity remain innovative. | | | | | |  | | | | From "Pretty Woman", Tokyo, 2017 © Daido Moriyama/ Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation. | | | | From September 7 to 29, 2024, the Biennale Images Vevey and Photo Elysée present the installation Pretty Woman on the occasion of the exhibition Daido Moriyama. A retrospective in Lausanne | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | | © The Anonymous Project | | | | | | Home & Away | | | | 6 September 2024 – 23 February 2025 | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | © The Anonymous Project | | | | | | Home & Away is a photographic installation based on the collection of The Anonymous Project. Collecting color slides from the last 70 years, The Anonymous Project preserves this collective memory. In his installations, Lee Shulman gives a second life to the often forgotten people in these moments captured in Kodachrome color. Designed for L'Atelier de Photo Elysée, Home & Away invites visitors to settle into an interior inspired by the great years of the slide.
"For me, home has always been a place of fulfillment. A place where you can really be yourself, away from the outside world. It's where I feel safe.
Home is like a refuge, a haven where every object and every corner tells a familiar story. It's where my memories intertwine with daily routines, creating a fabric of security and serenity. The walls of home, imbued with familiarity, are a constant reminder of our roots and identity rooted in the past and present. | | | | | |  | | | | © The Anonymous Project | | | | | | Nevertheless, the idea of a vacation is one of escape and exploration. It's an opportunity to leave the familiarity of home behind to plunge into the unknown, discover new places and cultures, and immerse oneself in enriching experiences. Vacations offer a breath of fresh air, a break from the daily grind, and the freedom to lose oneself and find oneself in different landscapes and horizons.
Home and away are two complementary facets of our lives, each bringing its own balance to our existence. They remind us that home is more than just a physical space; it's a state of mind where we find comfort and security, while vacations are a breath of fresh air that nourish our curiosity and desire to discover the world beyond our four walls.
Yet despite their apparent differences, home and vacation share a deep bond: one of emotional resonance and personal meaning. While home anchors us to our roots and reminds us of who we are, vacations challenge us to see the world from a new angle and broaden our perspectives.
Home is where the heart is." | | | | | |  | | | | © The Anonymous Project | | | | | | Lee Shulman (1973, London, UK) lives and works in Paris. A graduate in film and photography from the University of Westminster, he is a multi-award-winning director of advertising films and music videos.
He is also a passionate art collector. In 2017, he founded The Anonymous Project, a collection of almost a million Kodachrome slides, from the 1940s to the end of production in the 2000s, which has become one of the world's most important collections of amateur photography. A collective memory and a vanished photographic process that he explores from a variety of angles, from the sociological clues contained in the images to the technical qualities of the film. His research has led to numerous publications, exhibitions and collaborative artistic projects. | | | | | |  | | | | © The Anonymous Project | | | | | | L'Atelier Photo Elysée is a freely accessible space open to everyone. It is occupied by artists with immersive installations that speak about photography.
L'Atelier also regularly offers activities to explore photography while having fun, as well as a selection of books that can be freely consulted. | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | Sabine Weiss, Anna Karina pour Korrigan, 1958. Collection Photo Elysée
© Sabine Weiss / Photo Elysée, Lausanne | | | | | | | | | ... until 12 January 2025 | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Nathalie Boutté, La jeune fille aux oiseaux, 2022
© Nathalie Boutté, ADAGP 2024, Courtesy Galerie MAGNIN-A Paris | | | | | | "What I don't understand is how I was able do so many things in the same period. That's amazing! And completely different things! It was a very beautiful life. I don't want to start over because it's not advisable. But I regret nothing."
- Sabine Weiss
To mark the centenary of Sabine Weiss's birth (1924-2021), Photo Elysée is presenting an exhibition that pays tribute to the photographer and has invited the visual artist Nathalie Boutté (France, 1967) to engage in dialogue with her work.
A major figure in French humanist photography, Sabine Weiss was not only a street, fashion, and advertising photographer but also a photojournalist for numerous international magazines. Over the course of sixty years, she explored all aspects of her profession. | | | | | |  | | | Sabine Weiss, "Autoportrait", Paris, 1953
© Sabine Weiss/ Collection Photo Elysée, Lausanne | | | | | | In contrast to Sabine Weiss, who built her body of work by photographing on the street or undertaking studio commissions, Nathalie Boutté creates paper works, inspired by images produced by important photographers. Her process is meticulous: she cuts hundreds of strips of paper bearing texts related to the chosen image—here, quotes from Sabine Weiss—before assembling them to reconstruct the original photograph. The grayscale tones of the paper strips create gradients, similar to pixels on a digital screen. Up close, the text on the paper strips is revealed, but it is by stepping back that the image is revealed. By opening the photographer's archives to Nathalie Boutté's gaze, Photo Elysée unveils an unknown aspect of Sabine Weiss's work, notably her studio work.
The exhibition presents a selection of iconic works by the photographer and reveals some treasures among the numerous negatives, prints, and contact sheets that make up her archives. In 2017, aware of the importance of preserving her work, Sabine Weiss chose Photo Elysée to house her archive, which arrived in the museum's collections at Plateforme 10 at the beginning of 2024. | | | | | |  | | | Nathalie Boutté, Sabine Weiss, 2024
© Nathalie Boutté, ADAGP 2024,
Courtesy Galerie MAGNIN-A Paris | | | | | | | Photo Elysée boasts one of the largest collections dedicated to photography in the world, covering the entire history of the medium from its invention in the 19th century to digital technologies. At Photo Elysée, Sabine Weiss joins other photography names such as René Burri, Leonard Freed, Henriette Grindat, Monique Jacot, Lehnert & Landrock, and Ella Maillart. | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | | NYPL Picture Collection Folder Hair | | | | | | | ... until 29 September 2024 | | | | | |  | | | | NYPL Picture Collection Folder Eyglasses | | | | | | | Set and setting presents the first institutional solo show of Swiss artist Tamara Janes. Janes is fascinated by how we see, question, and change the post-modern conditions of the image. She addresses these issues by utilising a unique blend of high-culture and popular culture sources that captivate audiences and humorously expose both profound and mundane aspects of contemporary visual culture. A large part of the exhibition shows bodies of work she made after researching the New York Public Library Picture Collection in 2018. It acts as a source of images for her, which she later organizes, adjusts, recontextualizes and modifies based on her artistic preferences. Tamara Janes was awarded the Swiss Design Prize in 2023 for the Copyright Swap series. | | | | | |  | | | | NYPL Picture Collection Folder Halloween | | | | | | On the occasion of this exhibition, Biennale Images Vevey presents at L'Appartement – Espace Images Vevey, the series Funny Snow Face, created by Tamara Janes and Natalia Funariu.
Biennale Images Vevey, from September 7 to 29, 2024 | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | "Sans titre" (Ronce UV I), 2024
© Olga Cafiero | | | | | | | ... until 29 September 2024 | | | | | |  | | | "Sans titre" (Ronce UV V), 2024
© Olga Cafiero | | | | | | Olga Cafiero has been given carte blanche to explore the Naturéum's collections. Through her photographic series, she captures the perpetual accumulation of time. She plays with colors and materials to create and represent each object. By bringing zoological, botanical and geological specimens to life, she opens up new perspectives on the natural sciences.
Olga Cafiero takes over Plateforme 10's Le Signal L space at the suggestion of Photo Elysée and Naturéum. | | | | | |  | | | | "Roncier" (Pola II), 2024 © Olga Cafiero | | | | | | Located in the extension of the Arcadia restaurant, Plateforme 10's venue Signal L gives artists the chance to showcase our corner of the country, the Canton of Vaud, each in their own way and style.
Several times a year, an artist is invited to come and take a cross-sectional look at an institution or event in French-speaking Switzerland to broaden and vary the scope of Plateforme 10's artistic action, extending beyond fine arts, design and photography. | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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