The Annecy museum team has taken a stand on its photographic collections and has given a reading of them in which the history of a medium and that of the collection are combined with the Alpine landscape, a choice subject for an institution overlooking a vast lake and at the crossroads of several mountain ranges. If it owes to its first curator, Louis Revon, the acquisition of the first prints as early as 1862, these are in dialogue with the views of contemporary photographers such as Christian Poncet, Jürgen Nefzger or Barbara and Michael Leisgen, who have extended this initial policy. It is thus as much a question of telling the story of the territory as of its image, in particular the capture of its exploration by the mountaineers and the reverie that the photographers project on its atmosphere.

Extract from the article by Tom Laurent published in the N°104 de la revue Art Absolument. Published February 3, 2023

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