Luce Lebart: a lecture on Collecting and Curating Photographs

PHG is proud to present a lecture by Luce Lebart: Collecting and Curating Photographs

Saturday, April 22, 4 PM

Presentation House Theatre

333 Chesterfield Avenue, North Vancouver

Please join us for a talk by acclaimed historian of photography Luce Lebart, who was appointed the first director of the new Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa in 2016. Lebart will discuss the Institute’s plans for their comprehensive collection and her approach to working with eclectic photography collections in libraries, museums and archives.

"We’re excited to hear Lebart speak about her wide-ranging, interrogative curatorial approach. Her interest in photography as both object and image is particularly resonant in the context of Presentation House Gallery’s thirty-six year exhibition program," Reid Shier, Director and Curator of Presentation House Gallery.

From 2011 to 2016, Lebart was Director of Collections and Curator at the Société Française de Photographie, the oldest photographic society in France, founded in Paris in 1854. As a curator, Lebart has organized and co-organized the exhibitions: La Guerre des Gosses Rencontres d’Arles, 2014; Souvenirs du Sphinx, 2015; Stains and Traces, First photosensitive tests by Hippolyte Bayard, 2015; Illuminations, 2015; Images à Charge (Burden of Proof) and Lady Liberty in 2016. She is the author of several books, including Mold is Beautiful, Lady Liberty: The Photographic Making of an Icon, and Les Silences d’Atget (Atget’s Silences), as well as a number of articles in fields such as meteorological and forensic photography and the history of archiving.

This event is free and open to all.