For its 16th edition, Paris Photo will welcome in November, beneath the nave of the Grand Palais, 151 exhibitors (128 galleries and 23 publishers) coming from 22 countries, bearing witness to the vitality of the international photographic scene. This selection has become of increasingly high standard, focussing on the diversity and quality of the artists and the works presented by the gallery owners.
With more than 50,000 visitors in five days and 45 French and international groups of friends of museums in 2011, Paris Photo proposes this year different programming axes:
-The “Recent Acquisitions” exhibition presents the new photography collections of LACMA (Los Angeles), the Fotomuseum of Winterthur (Switzerland) and the Huis Marseille (Amsterdam).
-The exhibition “Private Collection” makes us discover the “Archive of Modern Conflict”, an extraordinary group of photographies, often anonymous, from all eras and origins.
- The “Open Book” exhibition honours the publications of Bernd & Hilla Becher, bearing witness to the importance of the printed support in the formalisation of their “typologies”.
- Conceived as an experimental platform for critical discussions, the Platform features 4 days of live events directed by Roxana Marcoci (curator of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art, New York) with the special contribution of Paul Holdengräber (Director of "LIVE from the NYPL" at The New York Public Library, New York).
- For the first time, Paris Photo puts in place an original journey within the galleries: “Paris Photo seen by…”, which will be entrusted to a different personality each year.
In 2012, David Lynch has been entrusted with the task of creating a journey through the fair choosing among the works exhibited by galleries, which visitors will also be able to follow through the Paris Photo app. This is an original way for the public to contemplate the works whilst at the same time discovering David Lynch’s aesthetic universe.