Reading the Art Paris promotional material, one was led to believe that photography would be on display at a large number of stands at this contemporary art fair. The list of galleries exhibiting photography was long and enticing, but at the fair, photography was a little hard to find. At 3 pm, when the fair had opened to professionals for barely an hour, the stands slowly started to fill up… I set out looking for pictures in the maze of alleys in the Grand Palais. Like some kind of game, I started spotting “photographs” that, in the end, weren’t actually images, while walking past actual images that looked nothing like a photograph.
At a large number of the 140 galleries exhibiting, sometimes a photograph was on display in the middle of the stand, and sometimes it took up an entire wall. The space devoted to Russia will leave photo fans wanting more. Of course, Art Paris is above all a contemporary and modern art fair, and photography is represented as much as design, for example. You might not make any major new discoveries, but you will have the chance to rediscover a few favorites. You might even spot something that speaks to you, something you’ve never seen before, and if the price is right…
Ericka Weidmann
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