Pä\;uli Jucker, Z&uum l\;rich, Switzerland, around 1941 (c) Werner Bischof/Magnum Photos \;< /p>
The AIC organizes on Sunday April 24th, 2016, a Private Guided Tou r of the Musé\;e Elysé\;e in Lausanne, during the Werner Bisch of Exhibition.
We are delighted and honoured to have Tatyana Fran ck, director of the Museum, as our guide.
The Private Tour will b e followed by a Lebanese Cocktail Dinatoire.
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Tatyana Franck
Direc
tor of the Musé\;e de l&rsquo\;Elysé\;e
Tatyana
Franck was born in Geneva in 1984 and has been Director \;of the Mus&e
acute\;e de l&rsquo\;Elysé\;e since March 1st 2015. \;Between 20
07 and 2015, she was the Director of the Claude \;Picasso Archives in
Geneva, which houses Pablo Picasso&rsquo\;s works \;as well as major p
hotographic collections including the David \;Douglas Duncan collectio
n.
A specialist in modern and contemporary art, Tatyana Franck \;dedicates much of her professional and private life to photography. \;She was, among other things, curator of several international \;exhi bitions including: Les Caran d&rsquo\;Ache de Picasso (2015, \;Interla ken) \; Picasso : Creatures and Creativity (2015, Las Vegas) \; \;La P art Animale (2014, Paris) \; Yu Xing, Le Cours d&rsquo\;un fleuve (2013,&n bsp\;Paris) \; Prune Nourry, Terracotta Daughters, Holy Daughters, Holy&nb sp\;River (2011, traveling exhibitions) \; Picasso at Work, Through the&nb sp\;Lens of David Douglas Duncan (2011, Museo Picasso, Malaga &mdash\;&nbs p\;Kunstmuseum Picasso, Mü\;nster &mdash\; La Piscine, Roubaix &mdash\ ; Geneva&rsquo\;s \;Museum of Art and History &mdash\; Palacio de Bell as Artes, Mexico City). \;
Tatyana Franck is Chief Editor of th e magazine ELSE published by \;the Musé\;e de l&rsquo\;Elys&eacu te\;e. \;She is involved in the cultural policies of several renowned& nbsp\;institutions, and holds various honorary posts in Switzerland:
< p>&bull\; Member of the Executive Board, Pô\;le Musé\;al, Lausa nne&bull\; Member of the Governing Board, Fotostiftung Schweiz, \;Winterthur
&bull\; Member of the Governing Board, Art Museums of Sw itzerland
&bull\; Member of the Governing Board, Institut Suisse pour \;la Conservation de la Photographie (ISCP), Neuchâ\;tel
&b ull\; Chief administrative officer of the Fondation René\; Burri,&nb sp\;Lausanne
On an international level, Tatyana Franck is:
&
bull\; Treasurer of the Board of Directors, Fondation Henri Cartier- \
;Bresson
&bull\; Member of the Board of Directors, Amis de la Maison
Rouge &ndash\; \;Fondation Antoine de Galbert
&bull\; Member of t
he Board of Directors, Sotheby&rsquo\;s European \;Advisory Board
With degrees in History of Art and Art Law, she is currently \;comp leting the EMBA Global-Asia (Columbia Business School/ \;London Busine ss School/Hong Kong University).
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Werner B ischof &ndash\; Point of View and Helvetica: 27 January &ndash\; 1 May 2016
To mark the centenary of Swiss photographer and photo journalist Werner Bischof (1916-1954), the Musé\;e de l&rsquo \;Elysé\;e is presenting a retrospective of his work entitled Po int of View, produced by Magnum Photos (Paris). The exhibiti on offers almost 200 prints from the Werner Bischof Estate (Zurich) along with some video projections. The exhibition presents his work in Switzerla nd (1934-1944), Europe (1945-1950), Asia (1951-1952), and North and South America (1953-1954).
A second exhibition entitled Helvetica focuses exclusively on Bischof&rsquo\;s Swiss years, the period of train ing, studio work, fashion and advertising and then the war years in Switze rland as a press photographer working for the Zurich magazine DU. \; (From l'Elysé\;e website, edited)
Werner Bisc
hof was born in Zü\;rich and grew up in Waldshut, Germany. In 1936, he graduated from the
Kunstgewerbeschule in Zü\;rich.
From 1939, he was an independent photographer
for various magazines. He travelled extensively from 1945 to 1949 through
nearly all European countries from France<
/span> to Romania and from Norway to Gree
ce. His works on the devastation in post-war Europe established him as one of the foremost phot
ojournalists of the time.
He became associated with Mag num Photos in 1948, joining its original five founding photographer s: Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ge orge Rodger, David Seymour, a nd Ernst Haas.
< p>The focus of much of Bischof's post-war < span style="color: #000000\;">humanist photography was showing the poverty and despair around him in Europe, tempered with his desire to trav el the world, conveying the beauty of nature and humanity.<
span style="color: #000000\;">In 1951, he went to India for Lifemagazine, and then to Japan
and Korea. For Paris Match he worked as a war reporter in
From Robert Race, Chair of AIC Cultural Events:
In M arch, I joined another group for a guided tour of the Bishoff exhibtions. Even in French, it was much more interesting than I had expected. These ph otographs focus on a particularly important period in time and place &ndas h\; not just Europe, but the immediacy of post-war Europe\; not just Vietn am, but the Indochina war\; not just Korea, but the Korean War. From his h ome in Austria, he got on his bycicle to tour the devastation in Europe. D uring the Korean War, he photgraphed the &ldquo\;re-education&rdquo\; camp s for North Korean and Chinese POWs run by the US Army. (I did not know we did that!)
Bischof was there at the begining of Pax Am ericana and The Cold War, the forces that shaped our globalized world today. In his short life of 38 years, he saw and photographed a significa t era that we and future generations need to remember.
I a m particularly looking forward to a tour led by the museum's new director, and in English. Some AIC members will fondly remember the last Cultural E vent at l'Elyé\;es for the Los Angeles exhibition, with pas t director Bill Ewing. \;
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