Christian Caujolle

Caujolle studied in Toulouse, where a monograph on Jean Dieuzaide introduced him to photography.

He was a student of the École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud, class of 1974 (Letters - Spanish), and student and collaborator of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, and Pierre Bourdieu. He was a researcher at the CNRS from 1978 and a contributor to Liberation as a journalist and photography critic, then in 1981 editor-in-chief in charge of photography and produced issues dedicated to Jean-Paul Sartre and Jean Cocteau.

In 1986 he created Agence VU, a photography agency and after directing the 1997 Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles,[1] was appointed director of the Photographic Gallery VU from 1998. From 2000 he was curator of significant exhibitions and festivals including Foto Biennale in Rotterdam (2000); PHotoEspaña Festival where he presented young Iranian photographers and Thai and Anglo-Saxon photographers based in Bangkok (2001) later presented at the DG Bank collection at the Kunsthalle in Frankfurt; S. and P. Stanikas installation at the Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2003); Hors Cadre by Gérard Rondeau, at the Grand Palais (Paris) and 50 years of World Press Photo - Things As They Are, photojournalism in context 1955 - 2005, which toured Amsterdam, Tokyo, Paris, and Seoul in 2001; and Phnom Penh Photo Festival (2008).[2] He served on the judging panel for the 2015 Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA).[3]

On November 16, 2020, Christian Caujolle was appointed artistic advisor to the Galerie du Château d'Eau de Toulouse.[4]

On the rise of digital imagery shared via social media in relation to the profession of photography he has said;

In the world of image in which we are immersed, there are more and more producers of undifferentiated images, who are ultimately equivalent. And it is a popular production, but it has become illegible because of its mass. For this reason, I think that these image producers may not be photographers at all. In fact, I believe that digital imagery is today exactly in the situation in which photography was in its invention: when photography was invented, the only visual references on which it relied were painting, drawing and architecture. Today, digital image producers have as a reference the history of photography. They therefore produce clichés - since they are clichés, stereotypes - that echo pre-existing photographic images. At the same time, and this is one of the very positive aspects of the development of digital technologies, saying today "I am a photographer" is a real choice: it is a very important statement, since it affirms, it defends the fact that the operator has decided to use a technology that involves a certain type of relationship to reality, a certain manufacture of temporality that is totally different[5]

• Caujolle (2013). Post scriptum. Christer Strömholm. Stockholm: Max Ström, Bokförlaget. ISBN 978-91-7126-249-3. OCLC 833341000.
• Gentili, Moreno; Caujolle, Christian; Valtorta, Roberta (1998). Nuovo mondo, mondo nuovo : metamorfosi delle tecnologie. Milano: Charta. ISBN 88-8158-186-8. OCLC 40232299.
• PhotoPhnomPenh 5 ans. Christian Caujolle, Institut français du Cambodge. [Phnom Penh]: Institut français. 2012. ISBN 978-2-35137-145-9. OCLC 866572858.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• Petersen, Anders (2014). Anders Petersen. Christian Caujolle. New York, New York. ISBN 978-0-500-41108-7. OCLC 874836976.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Caujolle, Christian (2007). Things as they are : [photojournalism in context since 1955]. Mary Panzer, Christian Caujolle, Foam Fotografiemuseum (1st pbk. Aperture ed.). New York: Aperture Foundation. ISBN 978-1-59711-036-5. OCLC 153577738.
• Landskrona Foto view : Chile : from history to stories = desde la historia a historias. Christian Caujolle, Rodrigo Gómez Rovira, Catalina Mena, Samuel Salgado T., Jorge Brantmayer, Landskrona museum. Landskrona: Landskrona Foto. 2018. ISBN 978-91-984414-2-0. OCLC 1050514344.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• Sète #17. Christian Caujolle. Marseille. 2017. ISBN 978-2-36744-112-2. OCLC 990926292.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
• Chamorro, Koldo (2020). Koldo Chamorro : el Santo Christo Ibérico. Clemente Bernad, Margarita Ledo Andión, Christian Caujolle, Philip Sutton, Roberto López Montero, Museo de Navarra, Museo Lázaro Galdiano. Madrid. ISBN 978-84-17769-32-1. OCLC 1187187242.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Bas, José Ramón. (2009). La voz del viajero. Christian Caujolle. Madrid: La Fábrica. ISBN 978-84-92498-69-7. OCLC 421363111.
• Ackerman, Michael; Caujolle, Christian (1999). End time city (1st Scalo ed.). Zurich: Scalo. ISBN 3-908247-13-6. OCLC 41338370.
• Caujolle, Christian (2001). Joan Fontcuberta. Joan Fontcuberta. London: Phaidon. ISBN 0-7148-4031-9. OCLC 45648294.
• Place du Châtelain; Caujolle, Christian; Dumont, Delphine; de Spoelberch, Rodolphe (2020). The world within (First ed.). Brussels, Belgium. ISBN 978-2-9602519-1-3. OCLC 1252059869.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Rimondi, Giulio (2016). Italiana. Christian Caujolle, Kehrer Verlag. Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-86828-718-9. OCLC 971134137.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Madoz, Chema (1999). Chema Madoz. Christian Caujolle. Paris: Assouline. ISBN 2-84323-154-X. OCLC 41466663.
• Beard, Peter H. (1997). Peter Beard. Christian Caujolle, Centre national de la photographie (2. éd ed.). Paris: Nathan. ISBN 9782097541079. OCLC 1311043684.
• Berger, Hans Georg (2000). Het bun dai bun : Laos : sacred rituals of Luang Prabang. Christian Caujolle. London: Westzone. ISBN 1-903391-02-4. OCLC 47226223.
• Photographies contemporaines, points de vue. Fondation HSBC pour la photographie. Paris: Textuel. 2006. ISBN 2-84597-209-1. OCLC 300529952.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• Ordos : stillborn city. Christian Caujolle, Gabriel Grésillon, Hudson Lockett, R. Muller, Adrien Golinelli. Heidelberg. 2016. ISBN 978-3-86828-638-0. OCLC 956337453.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
• Moser, Albert (2012). Albert Moser : life as a panoramic. Christian Berst, Philip March Jones, André Rouillé, Christian Caujolle, Galerie Christian Berst. Paris: Galerie Christian Berst. ISBN 978-2-36669-002-6. OCLC 846549200.
• Greene, Stanley (2003). Open wound : Chechnya 1994 to 2003. André Glucksmann, Christian Caujolle. [London]: Trolley. ISBN 1-904563-01-5. OCLC 52565574.
• Beard, Peter H.; Caujolle, Christian; Tunney, Peter T. (1999). Peter Beard : fifty years of portraits (1st ed.). Sante Fe, N.M.: Arena Editions. ISBN 1-892041-15-4. OCLC 42585037.
• Klein, William (1985). William Klein. Christian,. Caujolle. Paris: Centre national de la photographie. ISBN 2-86754-023-2. OCLC 489805097.
• City night light. Philong Sovan, Christian Caujolle. [Marseille]. 2022. ISBN 978-2-36744-169-6. OCLC 1334735186.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
• Johansson, Simon; Flemming, Gösta; Caujolle, Christian (2016). Simon Johansson : across the bridge (1st ed.). Stockholm: Journal. ISBN 978-91-87939-17-4. OCLC 967833195.
• Wasif, Munem, ...; Caujolle, Christian (2013). Belonging. Paris: C. de La Féronnière. ISBN 978-2-9542266-1-3. OCLC 859448878.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Lassée, Floriane de; Caujolle, Christian (2022). Inside views. [Paris]: Le Caillou Bleu - Editions. ISBN 978-2-490952-26-7. OCLC 1374119195.
• Petersen, Anders; Caujolle, Christian (2013). Anders Petersen. [Roquevaire: A. Frère. ISBN 979-10-92265-10-1. OCLC 870259505.
• Tractor boys. Christian Caujolle, Martin Bogren. Stockport. 2013. ISBN 978-1-907893-35-3. OCLC 830354246.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
• Caujolle, Christian (1996). Labours. Jean-Luc Chapin. Cognac: Le Temps qu'il fait. ISBN 2-86853-245-4. OCLC 38041571.
• Doury, Claudine; Caujolle, Christian; McWhorter, Melanie (2011). Sasha. Brussels: Le Caillou Bleu - Editions. ISBN 978-2-930537-11-5. OCLC 855115140.
• Muñoz, Isabel; Boesch, Jacques; Caujolle, Christian (1994). Fragments. Arles: Actes Sud. ISBN 2-7427-0360-8. OCLC 464076117.
• Agata, Antoine d'; Caujolle, Christian; Le Dantec, Bruno (2003). Insomnia. Marseille: Images en manœuvres. ISBN 2-908445-75-1. OCLC 53177762.
• Caujolle, Christian; De Luca, Erri; Jones, Julie; Maison rouge-Fondation Antoine de Galbert (2017). Étranger résident : la collection Marin Karmitz. [Lyon]: Fage éditions. ISBN 978-2-84975-467-2. OCLC 1011556153.
• Tirafkan, Sadegh; Shayegan, Darius; Caujolle, Christian (2005). Sadegh Tirafkan : Iranian man. Bruxelles: La lettre volée. ISBN 2-87317-281-9. OCLC 68619863.
• Bovet, Emmanuel; Caujolle, Christian (2015). East stream : un road trip au fil du Danube. Trézélan: Filigranes éditions. ISBN 978-2-35046-327-8. OCLC 920035881.
• Delafontaine, Léo; Caujolle, Christian; Morgensztern, Isy; Photaumnales, Diaphane (2011). D'Abraham. Montreuil-sur-Brèche: Diaphane éd. ISBN 978-2-919077-06-9. OCLC 780295091.
• Beasley, Juliana, ...; Caujolle, Christian (2010). Sète #10. Sète: CéTaVoir. ISBN 978-2-84995-173-6. OCLC 810635254.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Culmann, Olivier; Caujolle, Christian; Cheval, François; Pinney, Christopher; Musée Nicéphore Niépce (2015). Olivier Culmann : the others. Paris: Éditions Xavier Barral. ISBN 978-2-36511-080-8. OCLC 927159654.

• 2010: Officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres