Christine BARTHE

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Head of Photographic Collection, Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac

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Christine Barthe is Curator, Head of the photographic collection at the musee du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris, France.  She leads an important acquisition policy of old and contemporary worldwide photography. She is member of the selection committee for the Photography Award of musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac.

 

She curated many exhibitions: in 2025 "Re-enchanting Our Lives" curated with Malick Ndiaye and Annabelle Lacour at musée Théodore Monod de Dakar, in 2024 "Habiter ce monde" curated with Malick Ndiaye and Annabelle Lacour at musée Théodore Monod de Dakar,  "Ouvrir l’album du monde, photographies 1842-1911", musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (2023), "Dinh Q. Lê, le fil de la mémoire et autres photographies", musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (2022)," A toi appartient le regard et (…) la liaison infinie entre les choses", musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (2020)  "Photographs, An Early Album of the World" at the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum (2019). At the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac : "Nocturnes de Colombie, images contemporaines" (2013), "Patagonie, Images du bout du monde" (2012), "Camera Obscura" (2007), "Le Yucatán est ailleurs, Expéditions photographiques (1857-1886) de Désiré Charnay" (2007).

 

She co-curated with Xavier Barral the exhibition "Martin Gusinde, L’esprit des hommes de Terre de Feu in Arles" (2015), Kyoto, Ushuaia, Argentina (2015) and Santiago, Chile (2016).

 

She published with Annabelle Lacour "Mondes Photographiques, Histoires des débuts", Actes sud/musée du quai Branly 2023 and published "James Barnor", Actes sud, Thames&Hudson, (2023), "Samuel Fosso", Actes sud, Thames&Hudson, 2022, « Dinh Q. Lê, le fil de la mémoire et autres photographie » Hors série Gradhiva, 2022, "A toi appartient le regard et (…) la liaison infinie entre les choses", Actes Sud, 2020, Photographs, "An Early Album of the World", KAPH, 2019, "L’esprit des hommes de la Terre de Feu", "El Espiritu de los Hombres de Tierra del Fuego", ed Xavier Barral, 2015, and wrote an essay in "Contemporary Art Colombia", TransGlobe Publishing, 2017.