Clément Chéroux
author
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]
Themes
- history of photography
- curatorship
Books
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The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occultauthor
Works by Clément Chéroux
- The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult 2005 · Yale University Press · book · English ISBN 978-0-300-11136-1
- L'Expérience photographique d'August Strindberg: du naturalisme au sur-naturalisme 1994 · book · French ISBN 2-7427-0374-8
- Fautographie, petite histoire de l'erreur photographique 2003 · Yellow Now · book · French ISBN 9782873401733
- Henri Cartier-Bresson: le tir photographique 2008 · Gallimard · book · French ISBN 978-2-07-035625-6
- Magnum Manifesto 2017 · 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)