Anne Lacoste, who wrote her Ph.D. thesis on the history of archeological photography, has been a curator at the Musée de l’Elysée since 2011. She worked at Christie’s for five years before starting her career as a curator at the Photography Department of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Since 2005, her projects have spanned the history of photography with monographs on Felice Beato, Paul Strand, Irving Penn, Luc Delahaye, and Philippe Halsman, and themes such as the portrait, contemporary American photography, the history of the slide, the photo booth, photo collections, and archives.