The work of the Swiss photographer Béatrice Helg occupies a special place in the tradition of staged photography that first saw the light of day in the 1980s. Indeed, far…
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The images in these two series by Stephen Gill began life in East London as recordings onto colour negative film. They then went through a process of transformation which aimed…
This year, New York art dealer James Danziger presents a solo show of "Paul Fusco's RFK Funeral Train Re-Discovered" photographs. Since their rediscovery in 1998, Paul Fusco’s RFK Funeral Train…
Photographer, poet and filmmaker, Gerard Malanga also captured the singular atmosphere enshrouding the nihilist and post-Beat New York of the 1960-1970s. Real archives of his life, his photographs depict the…
For its first time participating at Paris Photo, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury is presenting a solo exhibition by the Franco-Ivorian artist François-Xavier Gbré. Composed of a selection of his photographs made…
Since 2009, the French collector and artist Thomas Sauvin has embarked on an unusual adventure: salvaging discarded negatives from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing that were destined…
Within these big slices of reality shown by Stéphane Couturier, there is an “articulate proliferation” of forms, textures and materials which makes a living composite reality. Then, the photographs of…
Alain Bublex is one of the most singular French artists of his generation. As a town planner, a researcher and a traveller, he has reinvented since the 90s the idea…
A comprehensive presentation of Michael Schmidt (1945-2014)—one of the seminal German photographers of the postwar era is on view at Paris Photo. The exhibit was conceived in collaboration with Thomas…
Shoji Ueda is a major artist in Japanese photography, whose œuvre soon had an international stir. His compositions, inventive and charming, are aside from history of photography, far from artistic…