Luce Lebart

Born in Asnières-sur-Seine, France.
Lives and works between Paris and London.

Luce Lebart is a historian of photography, curator and French correspondent for the Archive of Modern Conflict collection. She directed the Canadian Institute of Photography from 2016 to 2018 and the collections of the Société française de photographie from 2011 to 2016. Her research focuses on archival photography, the history of techniques, scientific and documentary practices relative to image. She was the curator of (among others): Souvenirs du sphinx and Lady Liberty at the Rencontres d'Arles ; Illuminations (Foto/Industria, Bologna) ; Frontera (National Gallery of Canada) and Gold and Silver (MBAC and FOAM Amsterdam, 2018). She has published several books, including Les grands photographes du XXe siècle (Larousse, 2017).