#6 CURATED BY CHRISTINE BARTHE: SUR/AMERICA

FROM FEBRUARY 19, 2024 TO MAY 19, 2024

"On America, from America, about America...The south and its images, the south of its north, the one of which Alfredo Jaar declared in 1987 on a map of the USA "This is not America". Let's look at this America through its photography books, produced in countries with very diverse economies, but which share a cult of literature and a taste for books and images. The publication in 2011 of Horacio Fernandez's famous work, Les livres de photographie d'Amérique latine, shows the extent to which the object has become a field in itself, a subject of research and a collector's item.

The selection presented here is largely composed of books by photographers, rather than books about photography. These are books of images, often conceived in such a way as to give pride of place to words set against the photographs, to narratives, but also to reading by flipping through the pages in reverse, to the improvised gathering of things seen and recomposed."

Christine Barthe

About Christine Barthe

Christine Barthe is head of the Heritage Unit for photographic collections at the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, and is responsible for acquisitions in old and contemporary photography. She has curated several exhibitions, currently with Malick Ndiaye and Annabelle Lacour Habiter ce monde, at the Musée Théodore Monod in Dakar, and recently at the Musée du Quai Branly Ouvrir l'album du monde, photographies 1842-1911, (2023), Dinh Q. Lê, le fil de la mémoire et autres photographies, (2022), A toi appartient le regard et (...) la liaison infinie entre les choses, (2020), and Photographs, An Early Album of the World at the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum (2019). She is a member of the selection committee for the Prix pour la photographie du musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac, dedicated to contemporary photography.