The art of freezing light - The exhibition
October 14 and 15 at the Student Foyer, Pierre and Marie Curie Campus: come and discover the collection of colored Lippmann plates from Sorbonne University.
The Lippmann exhibition was designed for the 2021 edition of the Festives de Sorbonne Université. Designed to be evolving and traveling, this exhibition presents, from the Sorbonne University collection, the scientific work of Gabriel Lippmann which earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908: interference color photography.
6 self-supporting roll up panels
The exhibition is made up of 6 roll up panels:
Posters
- History of science - The life of Gabriel Lippmann
- Physics & technology - Interferential color photography
- History of art - The photographs of Gabriel Lippmann in the history of color (Part 1 and 2)
- The Lippmann Collection - The Lippmann collection and project
14 light shelves
The plaques in the Sorbonne University collection require serious conservation work currently carried out by the SU Library in collaboration with the Restoration Research Center. But once restored, they will still require the creation of a device for exhibition without risk of alteration.
To still share with the public the first interference color photos in history, the exhibition is equipped with a clever backlit device allowing the exhibition of 30 of the 46 plates in the collection:
- 8 thematic A3 boards: cities, still life, parks and gardens...
- 6 A4 boards
Author: L B.-L. & Co.
For the 2021 Festives, the Lippmann project team created an educational exhibition dedicated to the SU collection, thought of as itinerant and evolving: The art of freezing light - The collection of Lippmann photographs from Sorbonne University
6 self-supporting rollup panels, 30 photos organized on 14 backlit shelves.
The exhibition is released regularly for the Fête de la Science and serves as a communication tool around our color museum project.
