Clément Chéroux
historien de la photographie
Clément Chéroux est un historien de la photographie, conservateur et commissaire d’exposition français. Après avoir été conservateur de la photographie au Centre Georges Pompidou, il est depuis 2016 conservateur en chef de la photographie du Musée d’art moderne de San Francisco. Il est un des artisans de la reconnaissance de la photographie vernaculaire comme genre spécifique à part entière de la photographie.
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Karim Kal / Clément Chéroux
For the past fifteen years, Karim Kal has been developing his work from a documentary perspective. The descriptive nature of photography is nuanced by his work with light and composition. His photographs offer an indexical understanding of the territory, seeking a balance between elements that allow for a social and political reading of the subject and a formal economy that draws on the vocabulary of abstraction.
Many of the photographs taken with a view camera were shot in working-class neighborhoods on the outskirts of cities such as Lyon, Paris, and Algiers. A record of forms, Karim Kal's images simultaneously refer to the idea of the relegation of suburban territories and to a pictorial formalism evoking the geometric abstractions of the 1970s and 1980s.
This first monograph is accompanied by an unpublished text by photography historian Clément Chéroux.
Arrière-pays
24×30 cm, 196 pages, approximately 100 color reproductions, French/English, hardcover
ISBN 9782843140129
Produced with the support of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs (DRAC).
Graphic design: L’Atelier d’édition
ISBN: 9782843140129