Clément Chéroux

author

French^[1] b. 1970, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France^[1] active 1998–present

Clément Chéroux is a French photography historian and curator. He currently serves as the Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. Previously, he held senior curatorial positions at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Chéroux has a PhD in art history from the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, where his thesis focused on recreational forms in photography (1890-1940). He is also an executive editor for the magazine Études photographiques and has authored numerous books on photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Louis Stettner.^[1,2]

history of photography
curatorship

Works by Clément Chéroux

2005 The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult Yale University Press · book · English · ISBN 978-0-300-11136-1
1994 L'Expérience photographique d'August Strindberg: du naturalisme au sur-naturalisme book · French · ISBN 2-7427-0374-8
2003 Fautographie, petite histoire de l'erreur photographique Yellow Now · book · French · ISBN 9782873401733
2008 Henri Cartier-Bresson: le tir photographique Gallimard · book · French · ISBN 978-2-07-035625-6
2017 Magnum Manifesto Thames & Hudson · book · English · ISBN 9780500544556

Exhibitions

2010 Shoot! Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France · group
2011 Edvard Munch, l'Oeil Moderne Pompidou Centre, Paris, France · solo
2014 Henri Cartier-Bresson Pompidou Centre, Paris, France · solo

Awards

2009 Prix Nadar
2015 Royal Norwegian Order of Merit (Knight)

References

Wikipedia: Clément Chéroux link
Wikipedia: Clément Chéroux (Publications and Awards) link