Biography
Luce Lebart is a Photography historian and curator.
She is particularly interested in images made or collected without artistic intent. In this context, she started her research on cloud photography and published several articles between 1996 and 2015. Between 2013 and 2014, she led a series of conferences on clouds in collaboration with the Musée de la Poste and Météo France. Since then, she has been a regular speaker on the subject, for example in the study day organised in 2019 at the ENS by Marceline Delbecq and Kei Osawa.
Inaugurated at the Polygon Gallery in Vancouver, her exhibition Cloud Album, presented with Timothy Prus, is the result of several years of research and image collection with the Archive of Modern Conflict Collection. The exhibition features over 250 original photographs and incorporates a range of artificial clouds, including a visual archaeology of cloud seeding. Luce Lebart is currently preparing a reference book, The Cloud Album, which will be published in autumn 2022 (co-published by Ateliers EXB, AMC and Polygon Gallery).
In addition to her passion for clouds, Luce Lebart has been exhibiting and writing books. The most recent ones concern Albert Kahn (Gallimard, 2022) and the archives of the CNRS (inventions, RVB-BOOKS 2019). She is also the author of an anthology of texts on Atget and co-edited "A World History of Women Photographers."
