Photo Élysée, formerly known as Musée de l'Élysée, is a museum in

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, 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.Fete ses 25 ans
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Retrieved 1 November 2020 The new building is designed by Portuguese architects

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. It has merged with two other museums; the

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and the

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. Succeeding Tatyana Franck, Nathalie Herschdorfer has been in charge since June 2022.

Collection

The collection of more than 100,000 photographs covers the whole range of photographic history and technology from 19th century

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to contemporary digital prints. Amongst others, it holds collections of works by

Adolphe Braun Jean Adolphe Braun (13 June 1812 – 31 December 1877)John Hannavy, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography', Vol. 1 (Routledge, 2007), pp. 204–205. was a French photographer, best known for his floral still lifes, Parisian street scenes ...

, who worked at the court of

Napoleon III Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was President of France from 1848 to 1852 and then Emperor of the French from 1852 until his deposition in 1870. He was the first president, second emperor, and last ...

Gabriel Lippmann Gabriel Lippmann ( ; 16 August 1845 – 12 July 1921) was a French physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908 "for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference". Early life and educa ...

Mario Giacomelli Mario Giacomelli (1 August 1925 – 25 November 2000) was an Italian photographer and photojournalist in the genre of humanism. Biography Giacomelli was born in the seaport town of Senigallia in the Marche region of Italy into a family of modest ...

Lucia Moholy Lucia Moholy (née Schulz; 18 January 1894 — 17 May 1989) was a photographer and publications editor. Her photos documented the architecture and products of the Bauhaus, and introduced their ideas to a post-World War II audience. However, Mohol ...

Gilles Caron Gilles Caron (8 July 1939 – 5 April 1970) was a French photographer and photojournalist. Biography Gilles Caron was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France, of a Scottish mother and a French father, Edouard Caron, an insurance com ...

and

Pieter Hugo Pieter Hugo (born 1976) is a South African photographer who primarily works in portraiture. He lives in Cape Town.Leah Ollman (9 February 2007)Photography that goes only skin deep''Los Angeles Times''. Hugo has had four monographs published. H ...

. The entire collections of

Ella Maillart Ella Maillart (or Ella K. Maillart; 20 February 1903, Geneva – 27 March 1997, Chandolin) was a Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer, as well as a sportswoman. Early life Ella ‘Kini’ Maillart was the second child, born to a w ...

and

Nicolas Bouvier Nicolas Bouvier (6 March 1929 in Grand-Lancy – 17 February 1998) was a 20th-century Swiss traveller, writer, picture editor and photographer. He studied in Geneva in the 1950s and lived there later between his travels. Life Bouvier was bor ...

were bequeathed to the museum. In 2011 it acquired

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's collection of around 10,000 photographs. The museum also holds the collection of Pierre Gilliard, tutor to the children of

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Distinction

* 2016: Lucies Awards, Spotlight Award

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.

Prix Elysée

Photo Elyése has been awarding the Prix Elysée since 2014.

Winners

* 2015:

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Notes and references

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