"Le Grand Tour": Musee Nicephore Niepce.(Chalon-Sur-Saone, France)(the work of three French artist-photographers is featured in this exhibition)

Notwithstanding the aristocratic associations of "Le Grand Tour," this version of the post-Renaissance voyage of discovery might best be described as a postmodern, postcolonial road movie. Produced and directed by Francois Cheval, curator of the Musee Niepce, it featured three French artist-photographers (in order of appearance: Ange Leccia, Jean-Luc Moulene, and Patrick Tosani) who set out on the trail of their nineteenth-century predecessors in Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine with the idea of doing things differently this time around.

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