Charlotte Cotton

**Charlotte Cotton** ƙwararriyar mai kula da harkokin daukar hoto ce kuma marubuciya 'yar ƙasar Ingila.

Ta riƙe muƙamai da suka haɗa da Shugabar Sashen Daukar Hotuna na Wallis Annenberg a Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Gundumar Los Angeles,  Shugabar Shirye-shirye a Gidan Tarihi na Masu Daukar Hotuna, London, Mai Kula da Daukar Hotuna a Gidan Tarihi na Victoria da Albert, London, da Mai Kula da Daukar Hotuna a Gidan Tarihi na Katonah da Gidan Tarihi na California .

Cotton ta shirya nune-nunen hotuna da dama a zamanin yau, kuma littattafanta sun haɗa da *The Photograph as Contemporary Art*, *Imperfect Beauty*, *Then Things Went Quiet*, *Guy Bourdin*, da *Photography is Magic* . Ita ce kuma wadda ta kafa wordwithoutpictures.org (2008–09) da kuma EhpethAnd.org (2012). Aperture ne ya buga *Words Without Pictures* a shekarar 2010. 

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
An haifi auduga a Cotswolds da ke Ingila. Ta karanci Tarihin Zane-zane a Jami'ar Sussex da ke Brighton. 

## Sana'a

### Gidan Tarihi na Victoria da Albert
Cotton ita ce mai kula da hotuna a Gidan Tarihi na Victoria da Albert daga 1993 zuwa 2004. Ta fara aiki a matsayin mai horo a can a 1992.   Ta shirya nune-nunen hotuna na tarihi da na zamani a gidan tarihi, ciki har da: *Imperfect Beauty: yin hotunan zamani na zamani* (2000), *Out of Japan* (2002), *Stepping In and Out: contemporary documentary photography* (2003) da *Guy Bourdin* (2003).

### Hotunan Masu Daukar Hoto
Cotton ya kasance Shugaban Shirye-shirye a Gidan Hotunan Masu Daukar Hoto, Landan daga 2004 zuwa 2005.  

### Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Gundumar Los Angeles
Cotton ya kasance Mai Kulawa kuma Shugaban Sashen Daukar Hoto na Wallis Annenberg a Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Gundumar Los Angeles (LACMA) daga 2007 zuwa 2009.

"Aikin Charlotte yana da alaƙa da gargajiya da na zamani. Wannan shine ƙarfinta na gaske," in ji Daraktan LACMA Michael Govan. "A Victoria & Albert, ta yi aiki da tarin hotuna kusan 300,000 waɗanda ke da kyawawan kayan tarihi na ƙarni na 19 da farkon ƙarni na 20, don haka ta sami tushe a cikin babban tarin kayan tarihi da ayyukan tarihi. Sannan ta yi watsi da shi don yin gwaji da ƙarin koyo game da daukar hoto a duniyar zamani. Ta sami babban gogewa, kuma ta ɗauki haɗari. Wannan haɗin gwiwa ne mai kyau." 

### Wasu mukamai
Ta kuma riƙe muƙamai na Darakta Mai Ƙirƙira a Gidan Tarihi na Ƙasa da Ƙasa, Birtaniya, da kuma Curator in Residence for International Center of Photography 's new space, 250 Bowery,  da Curator in Residence a Metabolic Studio, LA inda ta shiga cikin wani shiri na murnar gadon ginin Woman's, wanda Judy Chicago, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville da Arlene Raven suka kafa.  A halin yanzu tana riƙe da Mai Kula da Gidaje a Gidan Tarihi na California, da ke Riverside, CA.

Cotton ya kasance mai suka da kuma ƙwararre a jami'o'i da makarantu da dama a Amurka da Birtaniya, ciki har da: NYU Tisch, New York; CCA, San Francisco; Parsons da SVA, New York; Jami'ar Yale, New Haven; UPenn, Philadelphia; da UCLA, USC, UC Irvine, Los Angeles; Kwalejin Farnham, Cibiyar Zane ta Surrey, Birtaniya.

## Ayyuka

### ''Hoton a Matsayin Fasaha ta Zamani''
Littafin *The Photograph as Contemporary Art* ya gabatar da gabatarwa ga zane-zane na zamani, yana gano muhimman fasaloli da jigogi da kuma bikin al'adunsa ta hanyar taƙaitaccen bayani game da mafi mahimmancin masu fasaha da kirkire-kirkire. Ana sake buga ayyukan masu daukar hoto kusan 250, daga ƙwararrun masu fasaha kamar Isa Genzken, Jeff Wall, Sophie Calle, Thomas Demand, Nan Goldin, da Sherrie Levine zuwa ƙwararrun masu tasowa kamar Walead Beshty, Jason Evans, Lucas Blalock, Sara VanDerBeek, da Viviane Sassen . 

An buga bugu na farko na *The Photograph as Contemporary Art* a shekara ta 2004. An buga na uku a shekara ta 2014 kuma yana da sabon gabatarwa da kuma babi na ƙarshe mai faɗi.

An buga littafin *"Photograph as Contemporary Art"* a harsuna tara.

### ''Daukar hoto sihiri ne''
Daukar Hoto Sihiri littafi ne mai mahimmanci wanda ke yin nazari kan ayyukan masu fasaha sama da tamanin, waɗanda dukkansu suna da hanyoyin gwaji don ra'ayoyin daukar hoto, waɗanda aka saita a cikin yanayin hoto na zamani, wanda Web 2.0 ya tsara. Daukar Hoto Sihiri ne akan masu fasaha tamanin waɗanda ayyukansu ke tsara yuwuwar yanayin daukar hoto na zamani. Masu ba da gudummawa sun haɗa da Elad Lassry, Sara VanDerBeek da Kate Steciw .

## Ayyukan da aka tsara
Baje kolin da Cotton ya shirya tare da shiryawa:

* *Fashion on Paper & Contemporary Fashion Photography*, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1997
* *Information Units*: A digital programme exploring the V&A's Photography Collection. Devised and launched between April and November 1998
* *Silver & Syrup: a selected history of photography*, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1998/99
* *Triple Exposure: Three Photographers From the Sixties*, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1999/2000
* *Attitude: A History of Posing*, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2000/01
* *Imperfect Beauty: The Making of Contemporary Fashion Photographs*, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2000/01
* *Out of Japan*: Felice Beato, Masahisa Fukase, Naoya Hatakeyama, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2001/02
* *Stepping in and Out*: Contemporary Documentary Photography: Roger Ballen, Tina Barney, Donovan Wylie, Clare Richardson, Albrecht Tubke, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2002/03
* *Guy Bourdin*, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2003); National Gallery Victoria (2003); Centre Nationale de la Photographie Paris (2004); Foam Amsterdam (2004)
* *History in the Making*: Mitch Epstein, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Ori Gersht, Zineb Sedira, Zoran Nazkovski. Circulos des Bellas Artes, Madrid PhotoEspana, 2004
* *Stories from Russia: Melanie Manchot & David King*, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 2005
* *Art + Commerce Festival of Emerging Photographers*, The Tobacco Warehouse, Brooklyn, 2005; MOC Gallery, Tokyo (2006); Fendi Gallery, Milan (2006); Matadero Madrid (2006, PHotoEspaña); Center for Photography, Stockholm (2006, XpoSweden)
* *Philip-Lorca diCorcia*, LACMA, Los Angeles, 2008
* *The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection*, LACMA, Los Angeles, 2008/09
* *Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913 ~ 2008*, LACMA, Los Angeles, 2008/09
* *A Machine Project Field Guide to the LA County Museum of Art*, LACMA, Los Angeles, 2008
* *EATLACMA*, LACMA, Los Angeles, 2010
* *Brighton Photo Fringe*, Phoenix Arts, Brighton, 2011
* *Krakow Photomonth: Photography in Everyday Life*, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, 2012
* *Daegu Photo Biennale: Photography Is Magic!*, Daegu Arts and Culture Centre, Daegu, 2012
* *Photoespaña 2014: P2P*, Teatro Fernan Gomez, Madrid, 2014
* *This Place*,DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, 2014/15; Tel Aviv Museum, 2015; Norton Museum, Palm Beach, 2015; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, 2016
* *SupraEnvironmental,* Katonah Museum of Art, New York, 2015/16
* *Photography is Magic: Aperture Summer Open*, Aperture Foundation, New York, 2016
* *Public, Private, Secret*, International Center of Photography, New York, 2016/17
* *Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum*, International Center of Photography, New York, 29 September 2022 – 9 January 2023

## Littattafai
Littattafan da Cotton ya rubuta kuma ya gyara:

*   (Editor, essay)
*  
*   (Essay, published for LACMA)
*   (Founder of wordswithoutpictures.org, co-editor, essay, published for LACMA)
*   (Commissioned and published for LACMA)
*   (Essay, co-published for LACMA)
*   (Commissioned and published for LACMA)
*   (Commissioned and published for LACMA)
*   (Exhibition catalogue, essay, artists' biographies)
*   (Third edition with new introduction and extended final chapter)
*   (Exhibition catalogue, editor, essay, interviews)
* Cotton, Charlotte (2015). *Photography is Magic.* Aperture. ISBN&nbsp;.
* Cotton, Charlotte (2018). *Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self*. Aperture. ISBN&nbsp;
* Cotton, Charlotte (2018). *Fashion Image Revolution.* Prestel. ISBN&nbsp;

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