For this event, UCCA members will enjoy:
• Exclusive seats reservation service
• Members-only guided tour
For UCCA members, please send us your name and mobile number to RSVP (ve@ucca.org.cn) or call UCCA membership hotline: +86 10 5780 0200
13:00-13:20 Ticket pick-up at the reception desk (for UCCA members who RSVPed)
13:20-13:50 Exclusive UCCA members-only guided tour
13:30-14:00 ticket distribution at the reception desk (for UCCA members who didn’t RSVP and non-members)
14:00-15:30 Conversation
*Please arrive promptly.
Nathalie Herschdorfer (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.