Paris Photo 2013: Highlights

By Martin Macdonald

               Kiluanji Kia Henda, The Merchant of Venice, 2010               
© Kiluanji Kia Henda. Exhibitor: FILOMENA SOARES

Paris Photo brings together 136 French and international galleries as well as 28 photography book publishers at the Grand Palais in Paris's 8th arrondissement. The 17th edition of the world's leading photography fair is held from 14-17 November.

This year’s programme includes Recent Acquisitions, an exhibition showcasing new photography collections from three international institutions: the lnstituto Moreira Salles in Rio de Janeiro, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and Museum Folkwang in Essen.

The Private Collection exhibition features photographic works from the collection of Harald Falckenberg, one of Germany’s leading contemporary art collectors. It includes works by Richard Prince, Walid Raad and Walker Evans, among many other internationally renowned artists.

Nicolas Bourriaud, director of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and curator and art critic Chantal Pontbriand lead four days of conversations as part of the Paris Photo Platform. The themes discussed are 'Photography Challenged by the World’, ’Encyclopedic Fantasy’ and ‘Photography and Painting, Limits?’.

Paris Photo also joins forces with the Aperture Foundation for the 2013 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards. The winners of the competition's two categories, 'First PhotoBook' and 'PhotoBook of the Year', will be revealed on 15 November.

Curated by Martin Parr, the Open Book exhibition explores the ‘protest’ photobook and features images of uprisings from the second half of the 20th century to current times.

FAIR HIGHLIGHTS:

            Pilar Albarracín, Untitled (Torera), 2009      
     © Pilar Albarracín
        Exhibitor: FILOMENA SOARES

Julie Blackmon, Hair, 2013
        Archival pigment print © Julie Blackmon. Courtesy of Robert Mann Gallery
        Exhibitor: ROBERT MANN GALLERY

Elijah Gowin, Fall 10, 2008  
     Pigment inkjet print ©  © Elijah Gowin. Courtesy of Robert Mann Gallery
        Exhibitor: ROBERT MANN GALLERY

Richard Misrach, Outdoor Dining, Bonneville Salt Flats, 1992      
        Chromogenic dye coupler print. © Richard Misrach. Courtesy of Robert Mann Gallery 
        Exhibitor: ROBERT MANN GALLERY

Yaakov Israel, Gas Station, HaBiqah, 2011
© Yaakov Isarael. Courtesy of Fifty One Fine Art Photography. Exhibitor: FIFTY ONE
              

Malick Sidibé, Nuit de Noel / Happy Club, 2007 
        gelatin silver print © Malick Sidibé
        Exhibitor: RHONA HOFFMAN

JH Engström, Ende und Anfang - Early Trips, 2013  
        © JH Engström
        Exhibitor: ANDRE FRERE EDITIONS

     Cristina de Middel, Yinqaba - The Afronauts, 2012 
        © Cristina de Middel
        Exhibitor: EAST WING

Edward Burtynsky, Rice Terraces #2, Western Yunnan Province, China, 2012   
         Chromogenic print © Edward Burtynsky. Courtesy of Flowers, London
        Exhibitor: FLOWERS GALLERY

Ina Jang, this comment has been deleted, 2013   
        Digital c-print © Ina Jang. Courtesy of Christophe Guye Galerie
        Exhibitor: CHRISTOPHE GUYE

Stanislas Guigui, Loca Pegantera, Atras del Muro, 2009    
        C-print © Stanislas Guigui. Courtesy of  La Galerie Particulière, Paris
        Exhibitor: LA GALERIE PARTICULIERE

            Matthias Olmeta, Havana, 2013    
         Ambrotype. © Matthias Olmeta 
         Exhibitor: DU JOUR AGNES B.

Mishka Henner, La Caroline du Sud, 2012    
        Gelatin silver print © Mishka Henner. Courtesy of Yossi Milo, New York
        Exhibitor: YOSSI MILO

Stephen Shore, La Brea Avenue and Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 1975     
        © Stephen Shore. Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
        Exhibitor: EDWYNN HOUK

Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre, Paramount Theater, Brooklyn, New York, 2008      
         © Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre. Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
        Exhibitor: EDWYNN HOUK

    Nicolas Dhervillers, Hommage à Julius Leblanc Stewart, 2013     
     Lambda print. © Nicolas Dhervillers. Courtesy of School Gallery / Olivier Castaing
        Exhibitor: SCHOOL GALLERY PARIS / OLIVIER CASTAING

Marcelo Brodsky, 1st Year, 6th Division, 1967, 1996       
     Altered gigantography © Marcelo Brodsky. Courtesy of Rolf Art
        Exhibitor: ROLF ART

KEY FACTS: 136 galleries / 28 publishers/booksellers / 28 new galleries / 24 countries represented including: France (42 galleries), USA (28 galleries), Germany (20 galleries) / 54,157 visitors in 2012