On the beach, as elsewhere, many women broke free from old habits, 1930’s © All rights reserved
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À l'eau ! À l'eau !
01/06/2024 - 29/09/2024
Musée de la Photographie
Place des Essarts
11, avenue Paul Pastur
6032 Charleroi
www.museephoto.be
Under the title ‘À l’eau! À l’eau!’, we invite you to rediscover two very different approaches to this theme, but both linked to the summer, when the exhibition will be presented. In our corner of the world, summer can only be understood in terms of two essential elements: sun and water. Digging through our newspaper’s archives, we rediscovered two essential summer activities: the beach and the Tour de France.
The Beach: Our attention was caught by ... swimming costumes, the ones worn by the generations that came before us. Indeed, although the summer heat inevitably draws us to rivers, lakes, swimming pools and the seaside, there is no question of jumping into the water without the appropriate bathing suit. Beach clothing has changed considerably over the years, however. From the late nineteenth century to 1980, we have selected some of the bathing outfits that delighted generations of elegant women ... and the photographers who immortalized them.
On the Tour de France, water can be used to quench your thirst or cool down in the scorching July heat. From the beach to the roads of the Tour, our archives leave no room for doubt: water has always been the liquid gold of summer.
01/06/2024 - 29/09/2024
Musée de la Photographie
Place des Essarts
11, avenue Paul Pastur
6032 Charleroi
www.museephoto.be
Under the title ‘À l’eau! À l’eau!’, we invite you to rediscover two very different approaches to this theme, but both linked to the summer, when the exhibition will be presented. In our corner of the world, summer can only be understood in terms of two essential elements: sun and water. Digging through our newspaper’s archives, we rediscovered two essential summer activities: the beach and the Tour de France.
The Beach: Our attention was caught by ... swimming costumes, the ones worn by the generations that came before us. Indeed, although the summer heat inevitably draws us to rivers, lakes, swimming pools and the seaside, there is no question of jumping into the water without the appropriate bathing suit. Beach clothing has changed considerably over the years, however. From the late nineteenth century to 1980, we have selected some of the bathing outfits that delighted generations of elegant women ... and the photographers who immortalized them.
On the Tour de France, water can be used to quench your thirst or cool down in the scorching July heat. From the beach to the roads of the Tour, our archives leave no room for doubt: water has always been the liquid gold of summer.