Museum stroll

The photographic ‘museum stroll’ refers to a way of exploring an exhibition that is deliberately more light-hearted and recreational, and less intellectual than the usual museum setting might suggest.

This stroll places as much emphasis on the artworks as on the viewers’ interactions with them: attitudes, postures, distance, questions, amusement, games of imitation, and so on.

Exhibitions, particularly those of contemporary art, tend to take themselves very seriously; the museum stroll, by contrast, offers a more direct, sensitive and sometimes playful relationship with the artworks and those viewing them.

Visitors passing by a photograph of Jean-Claude Guillaumon yawning

Him again, at macLYON

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