"Quentin Bajac, MOMA’s new chief curator of photography, is shaking things up. “I’m a bit tired of the predictable history from the daguerreotype to the digital print,” says the Paris-born Bajac, who comes to MOMA from stints at the Musée d’Orsay and the Centre Pompidou, where he was the head of the photography department from 2007 to 2013. Bajac is known for breaking down departmental boundaries and displaying photography alongside other mediums. His brilliant 2009 exhibition at the Pompidou, “La Subversion des Images: Surréalisme, Photographie, Film,” was as audacious as it was entertaining. He says, “I’m most interested in the connection between photography, painting, and film, setting up a dialogue and seeing that they have more in common.”
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