Biography

Nathalie Herschdorfer is a curator and art historian specializing in the history of photography. She is Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland. She has also been working as a curator with the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP) for several years. In 2010 she was named director of the photography festival Alt. +1000 in Switzerland for which she curated two years of programming. Previously, she was a curator at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, where she worked for twelve years on major exhibitions, including Face: the Death of the Portrait, and retrospectives of Edward Steichen, Leonard Freed, Ray K. Metzker and Valérie Belin. She is the author of several books, among them The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Photography (2015), New Swiss Architecture (2015), Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast (2012), Afterwards: Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past (2011).

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