LEUTENEGGER Catherine

Kodak City

Suisse

2015

Kodak city is a company-city, a city marked by its industrial history. Indeed, it’s in Rochester that George Eastman created Kodak in 1892, the company that was to revolutionize photography in the 20th century. 120 years later, Kodak has filed for bankruptcy because it missed the numerical revolution. With this photographical investigation, Catherine Leutenegger leads to these places full of history which are about to disappear. She looks at the discolored face of the city and at people who lost their illusions. Bright and polished, with an aesthetics close to the advertising photography of the 70’s, everything seems to have survived inside the production places of Kodak ; everything seems unchanged, intact in spite of the passing time.

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About the artist

CATHERINE LEUTENEGGER was born in 1983 in Lausanne. After 6 years of study, she graduates from the Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausane (ECAL) Her Hors-Champ and Kodak City bodies of work pay tribute to the photographical medium and its history. He work has been published both nationally and internationally.