Paris Photo returns to the Grand Palais with 246 exhibitors
Photography’s bicentenary shapes the Paris fair opening on November 12. Its programme includes an installation spanning Thomas Ruff’s career, previously unseen Centre Pompidou acquisitions and a selection of women photographers. Across the Grand Palais, vintage prints and newer printing techniques accompany works tracing the medium’s history decade by decade.
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Paris Photo opens at the Grand Palais
The photography fair Paris Photo begins welcoming the public on November 12 at the Grand Palais exhibition venue in Paris, France. Its latest edition has 246 exhibitors.[1], [2]
A selection distributed around the venue covers every decade of photography’s 200-year history. Photographic books and vintage prints appear alongside images made using newer printing processes. At the entrance, an installation surveys German photographer Thomas Ruff’s career. Five galleries have organised it jointly: Lia Rumma and Mai 36, together with David Zwirner, Sprüth Magers and Konrad Fischer.[1]
Pompidou acquisitions join the displays
Around 100 photographs recently acquired by the Centre Pompidou, the Paris arts institution, are being shown after remaining unseen. The programme also includes a selection focused on women photographers. Women now constitute 38 per cent of the artists represented at the fair; their share was 20 per cent when that dedicated programme started in 2018.[1]
Exhibitors show landscapes altered by salt and tourism
The photography award Prix Pictet has a dedicated booth. Its displays include The End by artist Alfredo Jaar and Still Life by artist Valérie Belin. Jaar’s work records the shrinking Great Salt Lake in the US state of Utah. Gallerist Anne-Laure Buffard is showing salt-treated photographs by artist Ilanit Illouz and images by photographer Vasantha Yogananthan on tourism in the northern Indian Himalayas. Florence Bourgeois, the fair’s director, described recent Paris demonstrations as peaceful. She said the organisers remained attentive to further developments.[1]
