Photo Élysée

Photo Élysée
Photo Élysée building
Established1985
Location18, avenue de l'Élysée, 1014 Lausanne, Switzerland
Coordinates46°30′35″N 6°37′58″E / 46.5098°N 6.6328°E / 46.5098; 6.6328
TypePhotography
DirectorTatyana Franck[1]
Websitewww.elysee.ch

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.[4]

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.[6]

Exhibitions

In 2025, Photo Élysée presented an exhibition examining the archives of the Lehnert & Landrock studio, which entered the museum’s collection in 1985. The exhibition focused on early 20th-century photographs taken in North Africa and examined how these images reflected Orientalist views.[7] In the same year, the museum also hosted Gen Z. Ein neuer Blick, a photography exhibition featuring work by young artists from around the world that focused on self-representation.[8]

Distinction

  • 2016: Lucies Awards, Spotlight Award[9]

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.[10]

Prix Elysée

Photo Elysée has been awarding the Prix Elysée since 2014.[11]

Winners

  • 2015: Martin Kollár, Provisional Arrangement[12]
  • 2017: Matthias Bruggmann, A haunted World where it never shows[13]
  • 2019: Luis Carlos Tovar, My Father's Garden[14]
  • 2021: Kurt Tong, Dear Franklin[14]
  • 2023: Debi Cornwall, Model citizens[15]

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b "Museum Spotlight: Q&A With Tatyana Franck From Lausanne's Musee De l' Elysee". Huffington Post. 6 July 2015.
  2. ^ Fete ses 25 ans Regeneration2 Press Kit
  3. ^ a b Musée de l'Élysée. Collections. Photographers. Retrieved 1 November 2020
  4. ^ Le Temps, 25 février 2022 (ISSN 1423-3967, lire en ligne [archive], consulté le 8 juin 2022)
  5. ^ "Chaplin at the Musée de l'Elysée". Musée de l'Elysée. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  6. ^ Girardin, Daniel; Gilliard, Pierre (2005). Précepteur des Romanov - Le destin russe de Pierre Gilliard. Arles: Actes Sud. ISBN 978-2-742-75401-4.
  7. ^ "Photo Elysée takes a critical look at its colonial archives". SWI swissinfo. 26 October 2025. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
  8. ^ "Gen-Z-Ausstellung im Photo Elysée: Eine Generation fotografiert sich selber". NZZ. 27 October 2025. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
  9. ^ "Le musée de l'Elysée récompensé". Agefi.com (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-19.
  10. ^ «  [archive] », sur Nuit des images (consulté le 2 février 2015)
  11. ^ «  [archive] », sur L'Œil de la Photographie Magazine (consulté le 18 décembre 2023)
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ "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.
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