I was struck when I looked back and realized that I started this blog five years ago. It’s been mostly dormant for the last two years, but I did manage to post at least a couple of things each year. So to keep things going, here’s at least one post for 2017.
I’m wishing I could be in Paris this weekend. The annual Paris Photo event is going on at the Grand Palais. It started on Thursday and continues through until tomorrow, the 12th. Rather than being an exhibit, it’s an art market devoted just to photography. Galleries have a chance to feature their artists and visitors have a chance to gauge what’s going on in this part of the art world. I imagine it can be overwhelming. According to Claire Guillot, reporting on the show in Le Monde, the trend this year is away from large format, color images that predominated in recent years, and towards smaller format, black and white images. One gallery rep Guillot talked to suggested that buyers have simply run out of room on their walls. Guillot also noted a large presentation of documentary photographs, many from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Consistent with the idea of documentation, many galleries, rather than featuring individual images, are showing collections of images by a photographer that are part of a series. She was particularly impressed by Susan Meiselas’ 1970s photos of “Carnival Strippers” (examples in this photo).
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| © Nicolas Krief for Le Monde |
Guillot also mentions several photographers that are entirely new to me: Ilse Bing, Matthais Bruggmann, Karlheinz Weinberger, Chris Killip, Tom Wood, Barbara Crane. From quick looks on Google Images, several have made some striking photos.
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