Curator
Clément Chéroux, curator, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, head of the photography department
dates
Feb 26 → Jun 09, 2014
place
Galerie 3
Curatorial assistants
Quentin Bajac, chief curator of photography, MoMA, New York
Sam Stourdzé, director, Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne
Centre Pompidou-Metz dedicates an unprecedented exhibition to the phenomenon and aesthetic of paparazzi photography through more than 600 works (photography, painting, video, sculpture, installation, etc.).
Covering fifty years of celebrities caught in the lens, Paparazzi! Photographers, stars and artists considers the paparazzo at work by examining the complex and fascinating ties that form between photographer and photographed, going on to reveal the paparazzi influence on fashion photography.
By associating some of the genre's leading names, including Ron Galella, Pascal Rostain and Bruno Mouron, Tazio Secchiaroli, with reflections on this modern-day myth by Richard Avedon, Raymond Depardon, William Klein, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol, Paparazzi! Photographers, stars and artists sets out to define the paparazzi aesthetic.