Born in 1996, France
PhD student in contemporary art history at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
Anna Grumbach’s thesis, supervised by Michel Poivert, focuses on the emergence of a new generation of photographers in France, particularly around the Contrejour circle, between the late 1960s and early 1980s.
Currently president of the Association for Research on the Photographic Image (ARIP), she has also had the opportunity to participate in the curation of the exhibitions “Métamorphose. La photographie en France, 1968-1989″ alongside Michel Poivert at the Pavillon Populaire in Montpellier (2022) and ’L'(Œil) objectif” at the Cantini Museum (2024) as scientific curator with Claude Miglietti.
In 2025, Anna Grumbach was awarded the Fondation Louis Roederer Research Grant for her research project “Trajectoires d’une génération méconnue : la « jeune photographie » française dans les collections contemporaines de la BnF (1967-1982)”.
Her work, through the study of prints, authors’ files and internal archives in the photography department, provides an understanding of how these authors contributed to the reconfiguration of the French photography scene and the renewal of the way this art form was viewed at the time of its institutionalisation.