Louvre Photo

Place du carrousel, 75001 Paris, France

Opening of the Louvre in 1793 came several decades before the birth of photography. The museum, which merges reality and imagination and allows travel through time and space, has been a fertile cradle of inspiration for the early pioneers of photography. The project of this unprecedented exhibition centers on the Louvre as a model, as a subject, as a source of inspiration, and as an object of appropriation. It will present photographs taken at the Louvre as photographs of the Louvre, of its works, its exhibition rooms, its open spaces, but also the visuals…