Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais

author

active 1994–present

Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais is an art historian and curator specialising in photography and in the work of Man Ray, on whom she wrote a doctoral thesis. She was in charge of the Man Ray collection at the Centre Pompidou from 1994 to 1999 and curator for photography at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris from 2001 to 2018. She co-authored the 1998 book Man Ray: Photography and Its Double with Alain Sayag, the catalogue for the Grand Palais exhibition Man Ray: La photographie à l'envers. She has curated exhibitions including Objectivités: La Photographie à Düsseldorf (ARC, 2008) and Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstraction (Tate Modern, 2018). Her publications include L'Esprit Dada (Assouline, 1999) and Man Ray: Rayographies (Léo Scheer, 2002). She is now an independent curator and artistic director of the Photo Days Paris festival.^[1]

• Man Ray
• Dada
• photography history
• photography exhibitions