Research Catalog

Title

Unfamiliar familiarities : outside views on Switzerland / editors, Peter Pfrunder, Lars Willumeit and Tatyana Franck.

Publication

• Winterthur, Switzerland : Fotostiftung Schweiz ; Lausanne, Switzerland : Musée de l'Elysée ; Zürich, Switzerland : Lars Müller Publishers, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Pfrunder, Peter
• Willumeit, Lars
• Franck de Maud'huy, Tatyana
• Echeverria, Alinka, 1981-
• Lavalette, Shane, 1987-
• Leitolf, Eva
• Roberts, Simon, 1974-
• Zhang, Xiao, 1981-
• Stiftung für die Photographie (Switzerland), issuing body
• Musée de l'Elysée (Lausanne, Switzerland), issuing body

Description

6 volumes : color illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Switzerland's image has been significantly shaped by photographs dedicated to tourism. With spectacular mountain panoramas, rural idylls or portraits of local people the country could be successfully marketed, and these photographs also made an important contribution towards national identity. Another consequence, however, was that the respective pictorial repertoire became inflated and stereotyped. Switzerland Tourism has chosen an unusual project to mark its 100th anniversary in 2017 with the aim of exploiting the potential of photography anew. The Swiss Foundation for Photography (Winterthur) and the Musée de l'Elysée (Lausanne) invited five internationally renowned photographers to scrutinise Switzerland in their capacity as independent, subjective and sensitive observers' unrestricted by any advertising commission. What Alinka Echeverría (Mexiko/UK), Shane Lavalette (USA), Eva Leitolf (Germany), Simon Roberts (UK) and Zhang Xiao (China) discovered on their travels around the country or along its borders is both inspiring and revealing. Their exciting, poetic or mysterious-enigmatic images invite viewers to see the familiar with the eyes of an outsider. Exhibition: Fotostiftung Schweiz, Zürich, Switzerland (11.02.2017-07.05.2017). / Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, Zwitserland (25.10.2017-07.01.2018).

Alternative Title

Outside views on Switzerland

Subjects

• Switzerland
• Photography, Artistic
• Switzerland > Pictorial works
• Exhibition catalogs
• Illustrated works
• Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
• Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• Illustrated works.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Pictorial works.

Note

• Title from slipcase, and spines.
• Volumes 2 and 4 are in accordion style.
• "This publication is part of the project and exhibition organized by Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur and Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne with the support of the Switzerland Tourism"--Volume 1, title page verso
• Issued in slipcase.
• "Five renowned international photographers discover contemporary Switzerland: Alinka Echevarría (Mexico, United Kingdom), Shane Lavalette (United States), Eva Leitolf (Germany), Simon Roberts (United Kingdom), and Zhing Xiao (China)..." -- Slipcase

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• In English, German and French.

Contents

[1]. Unfamiliar familiarities: outside views on Switzerland = Fremdvertraut: Aussensichten auf die Schweiz = Étarangement familier: regards sur la Suisse / edited by Peter Pfrunder, Lars Willumeit, Tatyana Franck -- [2]. La neige en été = Snow in summer = Schnee im Sommer / Alinka Echeverría -- [3]. Still (noon) / Shane Lavalette -- [4]. Matters of negotiation: approaches to Switzerland / Eva Leitolf -- [5]. Sight sacralization: (re)framing Switzerland / Simon Roberts -- [6]. The river / Zhang Xiao.

Call Number

JQE 20-95

ISBN

• 9783037785102
• 3037785101

OCLC

964326627

Title

Unfamiliar familiarities : outside views on Switzerland / editors, Peter Pfrunder, Lars Willumeit and Tatyana Franck.

Publisher

Winterthur, Switzerland : Fotostiftung Schweiz ; Lausanne, Switzerland : Musée de l'Elysée ; Zürich, Switzerland : Lars Müller Publishers, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Edition

Trilingual edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

In English, German and French.

Added Author

Pfrunder, Peter, editor.

Willumeit, Lars, editor.

Franck de Maud'huy, Tatyana, editor.

Container of (work): Echeverria, Alinka, 1981- Niege en été.

Container of (work): Lavalette, Shane, 1987- Still (noon)

Container of (work): Leitolf, Eva. Matters of negotiation.

Container of (work): Roberts, Simon, 1974- Sight sacralization.

Container of (work): Zhang, Xiao, 1981- River.

Stiftung für die Photographie (Switzerland), issuing body.

Musée de l'Elysée (Lausanne, Switzerland), issuing body.

Research Call Number

JQE 20-95