Central issues in the wide and attractive photographs of the Swiss Alps, taken by Jean Odermatt (1948) are mystycism, the changing light, and the course of the seasons. He took over 180,000 photographs in total of this timeless landscape. He then selected those photographs, which transcended a specific reference. Odermatt shows the viewer a mysterious space, yet untouched and unseen by man. To Odermatt the sky is the most important element that gives the landscape its form and personality. Thus he approaches the Swiss Alps in the same manner as he encounters people: "Some landscapes reveal a fascination and move us. However, they are intangible, neither science nor human force and power can conquer them." In Odermatt's works landscapes are detached from reality. 'Invisible' changes in form and colour attract the viewer's attention; gradual metamorphoses of the landscape, such as time passing and seasons succeeding each other.