Inventions

Inventions, exhibition 

Curated by di Luce Lebart in collaboration with Urs Stahel

October 8, 2020 - January 3, 2020

Fondazione MAST, Bologna, Italy

www.mast.org

The exhibition “Inventions” curated by di Luce Lebart in collaboration with Urs Stahel, shows photographs of the most ingenious and surprising inventions taken for the collections of Archive of Modern Conflict (London) and Archives Nationales (France).These many inventions were produced and photographed in France between the two World Wars at the Office of Inventions on the initiative of Jules-Louis Breton, Director of Inventions.

Luce Lebart is a photography historian, curator and researcher at Archive of Modern Conflict in London.

Urs Stahel is a writer, lecturer and curator of Mast in Bologna, he is the co-founder of Fotomuseum Winterthur and President of Spectrum in Switzerland.

MAST Foundation is an international cultural and philanthropic institution that focuses on art, technology and innovation.

All images are sourced from the Archives nationales, France, and Archive of Modern Conflict, London 

*1-Studio as stage set, 1917-1918, gelatin silver print, National Archives, France, 398AP/61

*2-Tower for bird and airplane watching by Jules-Louis Breton and Paul Breton, 10/10/1930, gelatin silver print, National Archives, France, 398AP/27

*3-Early Computer, image published in the Sunday Times Magazine, gelatin silver print, circa 1920-1930, Collection Archive of Modern Conflict, London

*4-Listening device for ground surveillance, 1917-1918 Stampa ai sali d’argento / Gelatin silver print Archives nationales, Francia / France 398AP/42