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About the Exhibition
“Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast” is organized by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP), an independent, non-profit curatorial organization with offices in Minneapolis, New York, Paris, and Lausanne. Curated by art historian Nathalie Herschdorfer, the exhibition is presented in association with Vogue China.
About the Curator
Nathalie Herschdorfer is a distinguished art historian who specializes in the history of photography. She is currently Director of the Museum of Fine Arts (Le Locle, Switzerland), and has also been working as a curator at the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography and as director of the photography festival Alt. +1000 in Switzerland for several years. Previously, she spent twelve years as a curator at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, where she worked on major exhibitions such as "Face: The Death of the Portrait" (2004), and retrospectives of Edward Steichen, Leonard Freed, Ray K. Metzker and Valérie Belin. She is the author of Afterwards: Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past (2011), editor of Le Corbusier and the Power of Photography (2012) and co-author, with William A. Ewing, of reGeneration: Tomorrow's Photographers Today (2005 and 2010). Among her recent projects are the book NewSwissArchitecture (2015), and a Dictionary of Photography including over 1,200 concise yet fully detailed entries on all aspects of the subject (Thames & Hudson, 2015), the Chinese edition of which is forthcoming in 2017.