The 23rd Edition of Paris Photo

In the heart of the Paris at the historic Grand Palais.

Jean-Baptiste Huynh – KENYA – Portrait 1, 2019 ©Jean-Baptiste Huynh / LELONG & CO.

A platform for discovery and exchange, Paris Photo aims once again this year to unveil the best of photography, over nearly two centuries, proposed by 180 galleries reunited from around the world. 33 publishers join this exuberance, because photography would not exist without the support of the book, essentialin the visibility and the knowledge that it brings to the medium.

Paris Photo also presents an ambitious program, created with the help of partners, including BMW, presenting the work of their laureate, Emeric Lhuisset, and J.P. Morgan, celebrating the anniversary of the JPMorganChase Art Collection.

Paris Photo  is also proud to offer visitors the occasion to discover the Fondation A Stichting with an exhibition that questions our perception in a world of overa bundant images. Conversations, artists’ signatures, the 4 laureates of the Carte Blanche Students, special exhibitions and awards are all part of a dynamic week that will nourish our sensibilities and develop our understanding of the medium.

Finally, during the week of the fair, the “In Paris During Paris Photo” program offers visitors an extensive selection of photography exhibitions throughout the city as well as more exclusive offers for our most prestigious guests.

For the 23rd edition of Paris Photo, 213 exhibitors from 31 countries are reunited at the Grand Palais across 5 sectors offering visitors the largest panorama of premium photographic artworks available on the market today.

SECTORS:

– MAIN GALLERY Sector

– BOOK Sector

– PRISMES Sector (Located in the Salon d’Honneur on the upper floor)

– CURIOSA Sector (Located on the main floor under the Balcony)

– FILM Sector (Located in the Grand Palais mk2 cinema)

13 DUO SHOWS

EXHIBITORS LIST:

TRIBUTE TO ROBERT FRANK

MARY´S BOOK

Paris Photo 2019 is honoured to pay tribute to the memory of Robert Frank, and his unparalleled contribution to the history of photography, through this installation of ‘Mary’s Book’. This presentation is made possible by the gallerist Howard Greenberg, who acquired the book from Mary many years ago; he has promised it as a gift to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Un voyage américain: sur les traces de Robert Frank (image extraite du film), Philippe Séclier, 2009 (58′), ©Robert Frank /Courtesy: Silex films / Selenium Films/ Muse Film and Television Inc.- Les Douches Paris

Sarah Greenough, Senior Curator and Head of the Department of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, on “Mary’s Book,” 1949, which Robert Frank made for his first wife Mary Lockspeiser: 

Among the first photographs that Frank made on his return to Europe, they show his debt to Kertész and his new appreciation for the poetic resonance of objects and spaces. Many are devoid of people, although their presence is felt everywhere – in the handwritten signs instructing “Silence s.v.p ma fille dort” (Quiet, please, my daughter is sleeping) or the empty chairs whose arrangements suggest both past intimate conversations and solitary contemplation, as well as future occupation. (Unlike many of Frank’s earlier photographs) these works carefully situate their subjects in their surroundings, showing, for example, the trees that gently shade a seated observer or the cobblestones that elegantly ring a lamp – post…. With his affinity both for the things that are often unnoticed and the people who are on the margins of society, he showed, for example, the nondescript street where he lived and the blind musician whom most people, except children, pass by without a second glance.

The short sequence nominally presents the journey of a visitor to Paris (but it)has no narrative or chronological progression and is instead a series of impressions, with each page spread devoted to similar objects….For the first time, Frank explored the use of words with his photographs, writing inscriptions onto the pages. Like those in (Kertész’s)

Day of Paris, these texts vary between commentaries on the photographs themselves and transcriptions of what the subjects might be saying….With its wistful romantic imagery and intensely personal inscriptions, Mary’s Book becomes far more like a lyric love song than any traditional photographic sequence. Although in his dedication Frank reminded Mary that he had promised her a “little story,” he admitted that “maybe this is not a story,” and urged her instead to remember, as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry had written, that “it is only with the heart that once can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

Excerpted from: Sarah Greenough, “Resisting Intelligence: Zurich to New York,” in Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and Steidl, 2009, pp. 26 – 27.

Philippe Chancel – Datazone #13, Continent Antarctique, Charcot Point – 2017
©Philippe Chancel / MELANIE RIO

THE PLATAFORME – CONVERSATIONS

1980: Steam hovers over the sidewalk during rush hour on Sixth Avenue, New York City. Colour Photography book. (Photo by Ernst Haas/Ernst Haas/Getty Images)

THE ARTIST TALK BY THE EYES

Organized by The Eyes magazine, the Artist Talks put into perspective the link between the artist and the book in their artistic practice, editorial approach and in their publications.

In an intimate and friendly atmosphere, each artist will share with the audience their experience around their most recent publication in a set format of 10 minutes, followed by a Q&A.

In all 37 artists selected by the editorial board of The Eyes magazine are invited to participate in one of the 3 sessions of 45 minutes organizedeach day at Paris Photo.

Initiated in November 2012 by Aperture Foundation and Paris Photo, the Paris Photo – Aperture Foundation Photo Book Awards celebrate the photobook’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography, with three major categories: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalogue of the Year.

The shortlisted books, accompanied by the jury’s comments, will be featured in the fall 2019 edition of The Photo Book Review issue 017 (published by Aperture Foundation), to be released at Paris Photo. Following their display during Paris Photo, an exhibition of the thirty – five shortlisted books will travel to Aperture Gallery in New York and may be exhibited at other venues.

José GuerreroBarragan #3 MX, 2018
©José Guerrero Barragan / ALARCON CRIADO

Awards

PARIS PHOTO – APERTURE FOUNDATION

PHOTOBOOK AWARDS

THE FIRST PHOTOBOOK PRIZE

A $10,000 prize will be awarded to the photographer(s)/artist(s) whose first finished, publicly available photobook is judged to be the best of the year. Twenty books from this category will be selected for the shortlist, presented to the Jury for the final selection and exhibited during Paris Photo.

THE PHOTOBOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE

This prize will be awarded to the photographer(s)/artist(s), and publisher responsible, for the photobook judged to be the best of the year. Ten booksfrom this category will be selected for the shortlist, presented to the Jury for the final selection and exhibited during Paris Photo.

THE PHOTOGRAPHY CATALOGUE OF THE YEAR PRIZE

Awarded to the publication, publisher, and/or organizing institution responsible for the exhibition catalogue or museum publication judged to be the best of the year. Five books f rom this category will be selected for the shortlist, presented to the Jury for the final selection and exhibited during Paris Photo.

JURORS’ SPECIAL MENTION – BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS

In the twenty years since Horacio Fernández first wrote Fotografía Pública (MNCARS, 1999), the first landmark book to position the scholarship of books and magazines as a topic of critical importance to the photographic medium, “book about books” has become a genre of publishing unto itself. Each year, the PhotoBook Awards jury sees at least one well – researched, richly illustrated publication that presents some new facet of photobibliophilia — often using the filter of a particular region or city or even a particular thematic niche. This year, however, the jury noted a rise in the number of books about books that exceeded expectation in terms of design, like Printed Photography in Venezuela; or ventured into new territory, telling the story of a single notable magazine, like Camera Austria International: Laboratory for Photography and Theory. Each of these volumes, in its own way, adds additional detail and texture to the evolving connoisseurship and scholarship dedicated to the photobook.

Josh Haner, HanerClimate – Nature 2, The New York Times
©Josh Haner/The New York Times

CARBON CASUALITIES – THE NEW YORK TIMES

Since 2015 Josh Haner, Pulitzer Prize – winning New York Times photographer has worked across the globe documenting the pressing and wide -ranging realities of climate change.

Combining the drama of drone footage from the air with the intimacy of still images from the ground, the series is an intricate exploration of the many consequences resulting from a warming world. Haner’s visual narrative starkly illuminates the ultimate legacy of climate change: the loss of our planet’s vast heritage.

GOBELINS

For a third consecutive year, Paris Photo gives a carte blanche to the students of the GOBELINS l’école de l’image to share their vision of the International Fair. Under the glass roof of the Grand Palais, they follow the behind the scenes of the event from the construction of the booths to the excitement of the fair. In video and in photos, they share their view of this worldwide event for photography in Paris.

GOBELINS, l’école de l’image, is an educational institution of the Paris Ile – de – France Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It is today the school of reference for the creation of the image from its conception to its production. It has built a solid reputation for over 50 years in the fields of photography, in teractive design, graphic design, animation, print and multimedia communication.

CARTE BLANCHE  STUDENTS 2019

HUAWEI NEXT – IMAGE Awards

The annual NEXT – IMAGE Awards are an important part of Huawei’s overarching NEXT – IMAGE plan to redefine visual expression and culture through more professional and intuitive smartphone cameras. Launched in 2017, the awards provide HUAWEI smartphone users from around the world with a gallery where they can showcase their best work to a global audience. In 2019, the jury received over 520,000 submissions to the awards from over 150 different countries, with some 800 finalists chosen.

The 2019 NEXT – IMAGE Awards are broken down into six categories: ‘Going the Distance’, ‘Faces’, ‘Hello, Life!’, ‘#Emotion Tag’, ‘Life Now’ and ‘Storyboard

The Maison Ruinart Award – Elsa Leydier

For its second edition, the Maison Ruinart Award is attributed to one of the artists featured in the Curiosa sector at Paris Photo: Elsa Leydier, an emerging French photographer born in 1988 who lives in Rio de Janeiro.

SERIOUSLY CONVIVIAL. Stéphane Lavoué – Pernod Ricard

Facundo DE ZUVIRIA – Lavadero en Manantiales, Uruguay 1991
©Facundo DE ZUVIRIA / TOLUCA

 

EXHIBITIONS

FRAGMENTS – Fondation A Stichting – Brussels

Astrid Ullens De Schooten Collection

In October 2012 the Fondation A Stichting opened its doors south of Brussels, on the site of the former Bata factories. Created at the instigation of Astrid Ullens de Schooten, the state approved foundation has a vocation to support the creation, awareness and conservation of photographic images.

The aim of the Fondation A Stichting is to explore the challenges and contradictions of image documents so as to examine this visual – oriented world that we inhabit. Three temporary exhibitions take place each year, accompanied by interpreting and writing photography workshops targeted at young people and children. Pupils and students are invited to engage in dialogue with the artists during the Premières Découvertes gatherings. The Fondation A Stichting collection is comprised of works by photographers with a documentary – style approach, many of which receive global recognition, as well as artists who have already experienced a long career and deserve more visibility. Since 2015, the Fondation A Stichting also dedicates one exhibition per season to a budding creator. A veritable platform for the photographic image, the Fondation A Stichting also supports exhibition and publishing projects, organized in collaboration with other cultural institutions.

Photography looks to depict the world, bear witness to events that have happened, keep records, stimulate the memory and reflect on reality. Is making the visible stand out in a panoptic and digital society only intended for those who really want to see, as Lewis Baltz maintains in one of his writings? We are almost two decades into a new century yet the same questions remain unanswered, important and fundamental questions we must up to more than ever today, beyond all forms of border. The Fragments exhibition presents a selection of these fragments of the world.

Jean – Paul Deridder

Artistic director at the Fondation A Stichting

Exhibition curator

Artists:

Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Juan Enrique Bedoya, Harry Callahan, Facundo de Zuviría, Mitch Epstein, Cesare Fabbri, Lee Friedlander, Paolo Gasparini, Guido Guidi, Nicholas Nixon, Max Regenberg, Martha Rosler, Judith Joy Ross, Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel, Ursula Schulz – Dornburg, Jaime Villaseca.

Free guided visit of the exhibition with Jean – Paul Deridder: 7, 8 et 10 November at 2.30pm

AYANA V. JACKSON (American, born 1977). Tignon, 2015, Archival pigment print, Acquired in 2016, JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

Collective Identity – J.P. Morgan Private Bank 

L’Autre rive – Emeric Lhuisset

LAUREAT OF THE BMW RESIDENCY

BMW Art & Culture

 

Claire Aho, Circa 1958, Clary Von Platen -©JB

 

Claire Aho; Heikki Aho& Björn Soldan

Aho & Soldan PHOTO AND FILM FOUNDATION

The Foundation presents at Paris Photo three masters: the pioneering Finnish photographers and filmmakers Heikki Aho (1895 -1961), Björn Soldan (1902 – 1953) and Claire Aho (1925 -2015).

Heikki Aho and Björn Soldan were part of one of the most influential families in Finnish cultural history. Their father, author Juhani Aho (1861 – 1921), was married to artist Venny Soldan – Brofeldt (1863 – 1945).

In 1924, they founded the legendary Aho & Soldan company, producing over 400 documentary films. Heikki ́s daughter Claire Aho, ‘The Grand Old Lady of Finnish Photography’, joined Aho & Soldan then opened her own studio. Cultural icon, pioneer of color photography, Claire Aho was especially active in the 1950s and 1960s.

 

PARCOURS CROISÉS – Jeu de Paume