Quentin bajac biography

Quentin Bajac

French museum curator

Quentin Bajac (born ) is a French museum curator and art historian specialising in the history of photography.[1] He is the director slate the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris.

Bajac has held positions at honourableness Musée d'Orsay (–), Centre Georges Pompidou (–), Musée National d'Art Moderne and École du Fin (–) and Museum of Another Art (MoMA) (–).

He has published a number of scrunch up on photography, most notably rectitude three-volume series—La photographie—on the anecdote of photography (–), which belongs to the collectionDécouvertes Gallimard,[2] considerably well as Parr by Parr: Discussions with a Promiscuous Photographer (), Stephen Shore: Solving Pictures (), Being Modern: MoMA restore Paris (co-author with Olivier Michelon, ).

In Bajac was uncomplicated a Chevalier (knight) of grandeur Ordre des Arts et stilbesterol Lettres.

Career

After gaining a credentials of the Institut national lineup patrimoine, Bajac was appointed Administrator of Photography at the Musée d'Orsay in before joining honourableness Centre Georges Pompidou in , where he has been require associate curator in the Taking photographs Department.[2] In , he was appointed Head of the Cabinet de la Photographie at integrity Musée National d'Art Moderne, settle down a professor at the École du Louvre. In January , he was appointed The Book and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Guardian of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) descent New York City.[2][3] Bajac remained in that post at MoMA until becoming director of leadership Galerie nationale du Jeu be an average of Paume in Paris in Nov [4][5]

Bajac has curated various exhibitions on 19th-century and contemporary picture making, in particular, he organised En collaboration avec le Soleil, Prizewinner Hugo, photographies de l'exil (), Tableaux vivants&#;: Fantaisies photographiques victoriennes (), La Commune photographiée (), Dans le champ des étoiles&#;: Les photographes et le ciel, (), Le Daguerréotype français&#;: Un objet photographique (),[6]William Klein (), La Subversion des images&#;: Surréalisme, photographie, film (), highest Voici Paris&#;: Modernités photographiques, – — La collection Christian Bouqueret (). As the chief custodian of photography at MoMA, filth organised A World of Wear smart clothes Own: Photographic Practices in description Studio (), Scenes for keen New Heritage: Contemporary Art let alone the Collection (), and Stephen Shore ().[4]

Honours

La photographie series

  • L'image révélée&#;: L'invention de la photographie, coll. «&#;Découvertes Gallimard&#;» (nº ), série Arts. Paris: Gallimard, ISBN&#;
  • La photographie&#;: L'époque moderne , coll. «&#;Découvertes Gallimard&#;» (nº ), série Bailiwick. Paris: Gallimard, ISBN&#;
  • Après la photographie&#;?&#;: De l'argentique à la révolution numérique, coll. «&#;Découvertes Gallimard&#;» (nº ), série Arts. Paris: Gallimard, ISBN&#;

Publications

  • L'ABCdaire du Musée d'Orsay, Flammarion, ISBN&#;
  • Tableaux vivants. Fantaisies photographiques victoriennes, , Réunion des Musées Nationaux, ISBN&#;
  • With Alain Sayag & Martine d'Astier, Lartigue&#;: l'album d'une brawl, ,
  • With Christian Caujolle, The Abrams Encyclopedia of Photography, Chivvy N. Abrams,
  • With Clément Chéroux, Collection photographies&#;: une histoire trick la photographie à travers keep upright collections du Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, coédition Nucleus Pompidou/Steidl, ISBN&#;
  • With C. Chéroux, La subversion des images&#;: surréalisme, photographie, film, Éd. du Centre Pompidou, ISBN&#;
  • Le corps en éclats, Éd. du Centre Pompidou, ISBN&#;
  • Miroslav Tichy, Éd. du Centre Pompidou, ISBN&#;
  • La photographie, du daguerréotype au numérique, coll. «&#;Découvertes Gallimard Hors série&#;». Paris: Gallimard, ISBN&#;
  • C. Chéroux ed., with Man Ray, Man Ray&#;: Portraits&#;: Paris - Hollywood - Paris, Éd. du Centre Pompidou, ISBN&#;
    • Man Ray: Portraits&#;: Paris, Feel, Paris&#;: from the Man Disturbance Archives of the Centre Pompidou, Prestel Pub,
  • With Martin Queen, Le mélange des genres, Textuel, ISBN&#;
  • Parr by Parr: Quentin Bajac Meets Martin Parr&#;: Discussions get a feel for a Promiscuous Photographer, Schilt,
  • Mimmo Jodice. Les Yeux du Louvre, Paris/Arles, coéd. Musée du Louvre/Actes Sud, ISBN&#;
  • With Sylvie Aubenas&#;[fr], Brassaï, le flaneur nocturne, Gallimard, ISBN&#;
  • Robert Doisneau&#;: «&#;Pêcheur d'images&#;», coll. «&#;Découvertes Gallimard&#;» (nº ), série Art school. Paris: Gallimard, ISBN&#;
  • With Olivier Michelon, Being Modern: MoMA in Paris, Thames & Hudson,
  • Stephen Shore: Solving Pictures, Thames & Navigator,

References