The historian of photography Quentin Bajac, chief curator of photography at the MoMA from 2013 to 2018, will take charge of the Jeu de Paume in Paris, said Wednesday this museum specializing in modern and contemporary photography.
Quentin Bajac, 53 years old, has a long experience in art photography, at the Musée d'Orsay and at the Pompidou Center in Paris.
Professor at the School of the Louvre, responsible for the chair of history of photography, author of a history of photography in three volumes, he has written books including Brassaï and Doisneau. He was one of the curators last year at the Louis Vuitton Foundation's exhibition "Being Modern: The MoMA".
He replaces Marta Gili, who has presented 180 exhibitions during his reign from 2006 to 2018 at the head of the Jeu de Paume, in the field of historical and contemporary photography, but also video and online creation.
"I want to continue to explore with the same high standards the different aspects and issues of photography and the moving image," Bajac assured shortly after his nomination by the board of directors.
Quentin Bajac is appointed director of the Jeu de Paume.
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Located next to the Place de la Concorde, the Jeu de Paume, a space of exhibitions, meetings, teaching and publishing, is one of the great places of reference for photography in the French museum landscape. Since 2010, an antenna of the Jeu de Paume at the Château de Tours has allowed the region's photographic collection to be broadcast in the regions.