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Centre national de l’audiovisuel Explores the Subject of Tourism

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. Photography appears to be an indispensable means for tourists to own their subject, to fully possess the experience of a landscape, of a historic or cultural site. Speaking of all, trips, vacations and tourism, the pictures exhibited here, know different stages of valorization: on one side preserved for their aesthetic value and historic interest, on the other side reconsidered by artists and replicated in another context. The central part of the exhibition presents a wide range of the touristic iconography coming from public archives (CNA, BnL): precious