Interviews

interview with Cliff Chanin

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Cliff Chanin is Executive Vice-President and Director of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York. To mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11, he reflects on how the United States has commemorated this date, on the prominence given to first responders and those who died as a result of the attacks, and on the work being done to pass on this legacy to younger generations. He also discusses the role of artistic creation and the common ground between memorial museums dedicated to terrorism.

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interview with Clément Chéroux

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Clément Chéroux has been Director of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris since 2022. He was previously Chief Curator at MoMA in New York (2020–2022), Senior Curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017–2020), and Curator and subsequently Head of Department at the Centre Pompidou (2007–2016). He is a photography historian and holds a PhD in art history. He has curated numerous exhibitions and has published, as author or editor, more than fifty books on photography and its history.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks, the photography historian reflects on his book Diploplie. The Photographic Image in the Age of Globalised Media: An Essay on 11 September 2001, which focuses on the photographic coverage of the event and has been republished to mark the occasion. He explains how these images became iconic, why only a few photographs have become embedded in the collective memory, and what they reveal about our relationship with images and history.

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