Author Luc Debraine

In 2000, I accompanied Michael von Graffenried at the opening of his exhibition at the National Library of Algiers. For the Swiss photographer, the […]…

In 1965, the Swiss photographer Yves Debraine regularly went to New York on professional assignments. During one of his trips, he photographed in the mythical […]…

Let’s start with the grandfather. Trained at the Aéro-Club de France, Alfred Comte (1895–1965) was an aviation pioneer in Switzerland, co-founding the airline company […]…

The Swiss National Office of Tourism commemorates its centennial through photography. Rather than commissioning artwork or giving Swiss photographers carte blanche, however, the organization […]…

On September 23, the Musée de la photographie de l’Élysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, inaugurated a new space devoted to digital culture. For the moment […]…

The hegemony of digital images has backfired, generating a renewed interest in analog photography, and in historical photographic processes in particular. Anxious to distance […]…

Kodak’s decision to resume the production of Ektachrome film, and perhaps eventually Kodachrome, may breathe new life into the good old slide. It might also revive the ritual of the…

Who invented the mountainous landscape? Romantic literature, with its fascination for the sublime? Painting? Engraving? None of the above: the credit for popularizing the theme in the late nineteenth century,…