Photography, a mirror of the Écrins: two centuries of images and stories

Domaine de charance - Parc National des Écrins

This exhibition will try to answer several questions: How does photography dialogue with preexisting representation techniques, such as painting, engraving or lithography (Laurent Guétal and the Lac de l’Eychauda after a photograph by Alfred Michaud)? What role has the image, whether painted or photographed, played in the creation and perception of natural spaces (the Barbizon School and Fontainebleau, Carleton E. Watkins and Yosemite)? How have images contributed to the construction of a collective imagination of the mon…