#5 CURATED BY CLÉMENT CHÉROUX: TOPP! THE ONE PERSON PHOTOBOOK
FROM NOVEMBER 11, 2023 TO FEBRUARY 10, 2024
"There's a tradition of films and novels about a single character. In recent years, books of photographs in which all the images are devoted to a single person have also proliferated: The One Person Photobook. Today, this has become a category in its own right, alongside landscape, reportage and nude books, and is undoubtedly a sub-section of portraiture.
As the pages turn, the photographers set out to capture a life in all its singularity. There's the family tradition, with a book about the mother, son, sister, companion or, more rarely, the husband. There's the chance encounter: the next-door neighbor, an underworld character, a friend of a friend. And then, of course, there are the collections of self-portraits: Narcissus contemplating himself in his paper mirror. These books offer an encounter between artist and model. Little cocoons closed in on themselves.
Clément Chéroux
About Clément Chéroux:
Clément Chéroux is Director of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris. He was previously Chief Curator at MoMA in New York (2020-2022), Senior Curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017-2020), Curator and then Head of Department at the Centre Pompidou (2007-2016). Chéroux is a photography historian with a doctorate in art history. He has curated some thirty exhibitions and published, as author or editor, over forty works on photography and its history.