Five contemporary views: Darren Almond, Elger Esser, Henri Foucault, Bernard Plossu and Stephen Shore. With this exhibition the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny wishes to question our vision of the famous garden of Claude Monet at Giverny through the eyes of five internationally renowned photographers. Far from stereotyped clichés, their works invite a contemporary, plural, resolutely new reading of this tourist hotspot, which for the master of Impressionism was the essential motif of his painting during the last twenty-five years of his life. Monet settled in Giverny in 1883, aged 43. Seven years later he bought the house and the garden, which he arranged to his taste, and a few years later had a pond dug for water lilies on the other side of the road. From 1977 to 1982 the American Stephen Shore, commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, photographed the resurrection of the garden. From 2009 to 2013 carte blanche was given to Darren Almond, Henri Foucault, Elger Esser and Bernard Plossu, who appropriated the painter's garden: they walked, contemplated and studied, by day and by night, in winter, spring, summer or autumn, the magic of the place and its ephemeral beauties, endlessly reinvented. A source of inspiration, the garden represented a space of experimentation. Exhibition at the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, 31 July to 1 November 2015.