Photo-sensible
In the age of digitally generated images, analogue methods of depicting and capturing objects, events, and impressions hold a powerful, sometimes nostalgic appeal. These thousands of glass negatives by photographer AndrĂ© Schmid (1836â1914), who ran the first commercial photography studio in the Swiss city of Lausanne, constitute a fascinating legacy. His images offer insights into late 19th and early 20th-century society and its norms. With their raw, artisanal expressiveness and a materiality highlighted by traces of wear, Schmidâs glass negatives unfold as a unique aesthetic that combines realism, transience, and poetry.
Photo-sensible offers insights into AndrĂ© Schmidâs estate held at the MusĂ©e Historique Lausanne, with many of his images published in this book for the first time ever. This window into the past is juxtaposed with works by contemporary photographic artists LĂ©onore Baud and Olivier Jeannin, as well as graduates of the photography class at the Ăcole cantonale dâart de Lausanne (ECAL), which highlight the sensual power of AndrĂ© Schmidâs historic images.
Text in French.
Photo-sensible
In the age of digitally generated images, analogue methods of depicting and capturing objects, events, and impressions hold a powerful, sometimes nostalgic appeal. These thousands of glass negatives by photographer AndrĂ© Schmid (1836â1914), who ran the first commercial photography studio in the Swiss city of Lausanne, constitute a fascinating legacy. His images offer insights into late 19th and early 20th-century society and its norms. With their raw, artisanal expressiveness and a materiality highlighted by traces of wear, Schmidâs glass negatives unfold as a unique aesthetic that combines realism, transience, and poetry.
Photo-sensible offers insights into AndrĂ© Schmidâs estate held at the MusĂ©e Historique Lausanne, with many of his images published in this book for the first time ever. This window into the past is juxtaposed with works by contemporary photographic artists LĂ©onore Baud and Olivier Jeannin, as well as graduates of the photography class at the Ăcole cantonale dâart de Lausanne (ECAL), which highlight the sensual power of AndrĂ© Schmidâs historic images.
Text in French.
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In the age of digitally generated images, analogue methods of depicting and capturing objects, events, and impressions hold a powerful, sometimes nostalgic appeal. These thousands of glass negatives by photographer AndrĂ© Schmid (1836â1914), who ran the first commercial photography studio in the Swiss city of Lausanne, constitute a fascinating legacy. His images offer insights into late 19th and early 20th-century society and its norms. With their raw, artisanal expressiveness and a materiality highlighted by traces of wear, Schmidâs glass negatives unfold as a unique aesthetic that combines realism, transience, and poetry.
Photo-sensible offers insights into AndrĂ© Schmidâs estate held at the MusĂ©e Historique Lausanne, with many of his images published in this book for the first time ever. This window into the past is juxtaposed with works by contemporary photographic artists LĂ©onore Baud and Olivier Jeannin, as well as graduates of the photography class at the Ăcole cantonale dâart de Lausanne (ECAL), which highlight the sensual power of AndrĂ© Schmidâs historic images.
Text in French.
