Visit of the Gabriel Lippmann exhibition - Photo Elysée (Plateforme 10 in Lausanne)

About 20 alumnae and alumni joined the guided tour of the Gabriel Lippmann exhibition on Thursday, May 11, 2023. Our guide, Franzisca from Platform 10, provided us with many exciting explanatory details about the venue and the exhibition, offering an extra dimension to this wonderful visit. We also welcomed a few alumni who were coming for the first time to one of our tours - some even coming to the Platform 10 museum site for the first time. 

The visit ended with an aperitif that allowed the participants to exchange ideas. One of them offered the following remark: "It is great that EPFL Alumni organizes such events where we meet young and not so young engineers from all walks of life who share their experience and background.

For the Committee of the chapter VD-VS:

Jürg Furrer, President
Pauline Emery, Vice-President

EPFL and Photo Elysée partnership

This exhibition was made in collaboration between the EPFL and the Photo Elysée Museum. This partnership allowed to study, work and present to the public an innovative way of exhibition with the help of researchers of the Laboratory of Audio-visual Communication (LCAV) of the EPFL, for which Prof. Martin Vetterli, President of the EPFL, is responsible.

Gabriel Lippmann – The photography of colours

This exhibition highlights images from the Gabriel Lippmann collection, which is kept at the museum and produced using the interferential technique - a color process for which Gabriel Lippmann received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908. 

The Lippmann plates, being complex photographic objects, allow us to perceive the material and technical complexity of photography, which is sometimes overlooked or forgotten in the age of digital photography.

Lien https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Lippmann 

The exhibition is divided into three axes which list the major fields of research in which the Lippmann plates fit: the Lippmann plate as a museum object or the importance of the visual experience; the Lippmann plate as a scientific object or the importance of the process; the Lippmann plate as an art historical object or the importance of the image.

One building, 2 museums: the MUDAC and Photos Elysée

This architectural work is characterized by a wide gap that separates the mudac, in the upper part, from Photo Elysée, the base of the building. Each part of the building has its place, unified by a reception and meeting space, an extension of the public esplanade. Its luminous opening, which is a feat of engineering, signals to the public the common entrance.

In a single volume, this project brings together in a synthetic way the duality and complementarity of the two museums, notably through the treatment of light. Whether it is zenithal and uniform for the mudac plateau, or lateral and punctual for that of Photo Elysée, the light reinforces the identity of each of the museums.