Anne Lacoste is a Business School graduate and holds a doctorate in Art History from Sorbonne University where her thesis focused on the beginnings of photography combined with classical sciences in the East.
Following five years at Christie’s in Paris and London, she began her career as a curator at the Photography Department of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 2005. She then moved on to the role of Exhibitions Curator at the Elysée Museum in Lausanne from 2011 to 2017.
Her exhibitions and publications cover the history of photography – from the monographs of Felice Beato, the Nadars, Paul Strand, Irving Penn, Philippe Halsman and Martine Franck, to more general portrait studies, the Photomaton, the history of the slide, American documentary photography and the emerging international scene. Her journey has provided the opportunity to work on significant photographic archive collections such as those from the Library of the Institut de France, the iconographic collection from the Canton of Vaud, the Polish graphic designer Wojciech Zamecznik and the artist Jean Dubuffet.
Anne Lacoste’s visit is organised in collaboration with the embassy of The Netherlands in France.