Françoise Heilbrun

author

French[1] active 1986–present

Françoise Heilbrun is a prominent French curator and art historian who served as the Chief Curator of the Photography Department at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Since the museum's opening in 1986, she has been instrumental in developing its photographic collections and organizing major exhibitions. Her expertise covers a wide range of subjects, including portraiture, photojournalism, and the history of photography from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century. She has authored numerous scholarly works on photographers such as Nadar, Charles Nègre, and Pierre Bonnard.[2]

  • Curatorship
  • French Photography
  • Art History

Books

Works by Françoise Heilbrun

  • 1995 Nadar Schirmer/Mosel · book · German · ISBN 3888147271 Accompanying the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Musée d'Orsay.
  • Pierre Bonnard photographe book
  • Charles Nègre, photographe, 1820-1880 book

Exhibitions

  • 1989 L'invention d'un regard Musée d'Orsay, Paris · group
  • 1994 Nadar : les années créatrices Musée d'Orsay, Paris · group
  • 2004 Alfred Stieglitz et son cercle Musée d'Orsay, Paris · group

References

  1. OpenLibrary. Françoise Heilbrun. link
  2. OpenEdition Journals. 2007 link