Brief Biography

Nathalie Herschdorfer is a curator and art historian specializing in the history of photography. She is Director of the Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle / www.mbal.ch, where she has organized many shows with artists such as Andy Warhol, Georg Baselitz, Sol LeWitt, Stanley Kubrick, Alex Prager, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Todd Hido, Garry Winogrand and Henri Cartier-Bresson. She teaches history of photography at the art and design school ECAL, and is the author of several books, including The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Photography, Body: The Photography Book, Mountains by Magnum Photographers, Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast, Afterwards: Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past, and New Swiss Architecture. She has been inviting to curate photography shows in various countries, in Europe, Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, Mexico and the US.