#5 CURATED BY CLÉMENT CHÉROUX: TOPP! THE ONE PERSON PHOTOBOOK
FROM NOVEMBER 11, 2023 TO FEBRUARY 10, 2024
“There is a tradition of films and novels that focus on a single character. In recent years, there has also been a proliferation of photography books in which every image is devoted to a single person: The One Person Photobook. It has now become a category in its own right, alongside landscape, photojournalism, and nude photography books—and is undoubtedly a subset of portraiture.”
Throughout the pages, the photographers strive to capture a life in all its uniqueness. There is the family tradition, with books about the mother, the son, the sister, the partner, and, more rarely, the husband. There are chance encounters: the neighbor across the hall, a shady character, a friend of a friend. And then, of course, there are the collections of self-portraits: Narcissus gazing at himself in his paper mirror. These works offer an encounter between an artist and his model. Little cocoons closed in on themselves.”
Clément Chéroux
About Clément Chéroux:
Clément Chéroux is the director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris. He previously served as Chief Curator at MoMA in New York (2020–2022), Senior Curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017–2020), and Curator and later Head of Department at the Centre Pompidou (2007–2016). Chéroux is a photography historian and holds a Ph.D. in art history. He has curated some thirty exhibitions and has published, as author or editor, more than forty books on photography and its history.