LUXEMBOURG.- I was here questions and presents different
approaches to the subject of tourism, from a photographic heritage,
which seems
to be innocuous, anonymous, forgotten and often of average quality –
from the
technical point of view. Tourism and photography have always maintained a
close
relationship – one is growing parallel to the democratization of the
other. The central part of the exhibition presents a wide range
of the
touristic iconography coming from public archives (CNA, BnL): precious
albums of
the great voyages of the second half of the 19th century to a more
‘official’
view of tourism across a collection bequeathed by the ‘Tourist Office’, a
series
of stamp-sized intimate photographs…