Sam Stourdzé, a specialist in images, was appointed director of the Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne in 2009. His research hinges on the context of their production, distribution and reception. For a number of years, he has been studying the mechanisms at work in the circulation of images, with a predilection for the relationships between photography, art and the cinema. He has organised many exhibitions and published several books, amongst which: Le Cliché-Verre de Corot à Man Ray in 1997, retrospectives of works by Dorothea Lange and Tina Modotti, Chaplin et les images in 2006, and Fellini: La Grande parade in 2009.
