#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 about which Alfredo Jaar declared in 1987 on a map of the U.S., ‘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 love of literature, a taste for books, and a passion for images. The 2011 publication of Horacio Fernandez’s famous work, *Photography Books of Latin America*, shows just how much the book has become a field in its own right, a subject of research, and a collector’s item.

"The selection presented here consists largely of books by photographers, rather than books about photography. These are picture books whose design often gives significant prominence to the text accompanying the photographs, to the narratives, but also to the experience of leafing through the pages in reverse, and to the spontaneous gathering of things seen and reassembled."

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.