In «France, un album de famille», Yann Arthus-Bertrand shows a multiple and ordinary France through hundreds of portraits. But what remains of «living together» when social fractures remain off-screen?
Napoleon I had a Corsican accent - Napoleon III a Swiss German accent, traces of which he seems to have retained for a long time. Report from Arenenberg Castle in Salenstein, on the shores of Lake Constance in the canton of Thurgau.
A look back at poet Rainer Maria Rilke's decisive encounter with sculptor Auguste Rodin, as the Fondation Gianadda presents an exhibition devoted to these two major artists this summer, to mark the 100th anniversary of Rilke's death.
Arles, its arenas, its Alyscamps... and since 2021, also its LUMA Tower, which has transformed the city's skyline. This «interdisciplinary creative campus» is the brainchild of the LUMA Foundation, created in 2004 by Swiss businesswoman, producer and patron Maja Hoffmann.
Blue skies and sunshine, in principle everyone agrees, are beautiful. Mist and fog, those floating, damp, indistinct zones, are generally not appreciated over time. Yet to catch a glimpse of this fragile, shifting boundary between one and the other is a privileged moment.
Like Lucky Luke, are the trees of the American West waiting for the sun to set before singing «I'm a poor lonesome tree»? Or even «I'm already a dead tree»? A mystery. Images taken in Zion National Park and Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.
«La solitude, ça n'existe pas», sang Gilbert Bécaud ironically a few millennia ago, and each of his intonations underlined just how much it exists. It's true for humans, animals and even trees. Photos taken in France.
The chasm dug in Neuchâtel by the Seyon, whose current was harnessed as early as the 16th century to provide power for a mill, has been converted into a «Centre d'interprétation des techniques des roues à eau». The Gor du Vauseyon is also an attractive dream machine.
There's a natural part to it. And a human part. The natural part is the incredible colors and relief of the area. The human element is the evidence of quarries dug into the cliff faces as early as the end of the 18th century.
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