#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 explore this America through its photography books, produced in countries with vastly different economies but united by a love of literature and a passion for books and images. The 2011 publication of Horacio Fernández’s renowned book, *Photography Books from Latin America*, demonstrates just how much the book itself 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 words 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 recomposed."

Christine Barthe

About Christine Barthe

As head of the Photographic Collections Department at the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Christine Barthe is responsible for acquisitions of historical and contemporary photography.  She has curated several exhibitions, including the current exhibition *Habiter ce monde* (*Living in This World*), co-curated with Malick Ndiaye and Annabelle Lacour at the Théodore Monod Museum in Dakar, and the recent exhibition at the Musée du quai Branly, *Ouvrir l’album du monde* (*Opening the World’s Album*), featuring photographs from 1842 to 1911, (2023), *Dinh Q. Lê: The Thread of Memory and Other Photographs* (2022), *To You Belongs the Gaze and (…) the Infinite Connection Between Things* (2020), as well as *Photographs: An Early Album of the World* at the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum (2019). She is a member of the selection committee for the Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac Photography Prize, dedicated to contemporary photography.