10 Artists to See at Paris Photo
The 19th annual Paris Photo festival opens tomorrow at the Grand Palais. The massive photographic art fair will feature works from 147 galleries and more than 1,200 artists from around the world. To make your life a bit easier, here, we share our top 10 picks for what to see at the art festival.
Photo: Courtesy of Paci Contemporary, Brescia, IT1/10Sandy Skoglund, Revenge of the Goldfish, 1987
Sandy Skoglund at Paci Contemporary
Surrealist Sandy Skoglund will premiere her new work, “Winter,” at Paris Photo. The show will serve as a quasi-retrospective of the American artist’s career, pairing her early still-life photographs with her latest, never-before-seen pieces.
Photo: © Daido Moriyamo / Courtesy of the artist / Photo Foundation / Courtesy of Jean-Kenta Gauthier, Paris Akio Nagasawa Gallery, Tokyo2/10Daido Moriyama, Farewell Photography, 1972
Daido Moriyama at Akio Nagasawa Jean-Kenta Gauthier
In 1972, Japanese avant-garde artist Daido Moriyama burned all of the negatives from his influential photo book Farewell Photography. A few negatives that were saved from the fire, plus a set of 50 others that weren’t included in the original tome, will be on display for the first time in years.
Photo: Courtesy of Artist and Galerie Odile Ouizeman3/10Brigitte Zieger, Women are different from men 19, 2014
Brigitte Zieger at Galerie Odile Ouizeman
Brigitte Zieger has always been fascinated with violence and its distortion in the media. Her latest series, “Women Are Different From Men,” features several pinup-style prints of women pointing guns at the viewer.
Photo: © The Guy Bourdin Estate 2015 / Courtesy of the Guy Bourdin Estate4/10Guy Bourdin, Charles Jourdan Spring, 1978
Guy Bourdin at Louise Alexander Gallery
The late fashion photographer’s meta photo series—where Polaroid images pop up in color-filled fashion shoots—gains another layer at the Louise Alexander Gallery. The original Polaroids will also be on view, the first time these Bourdin images will be displayed side by side.
Photo: © Stephen Shore / Courtesy of the artist and Spüth Magers5/10Steven Shore, Gallup, New Mexico, July 11, 2014, 2015
Stephen Shore at Sprüth Magers
Stephen Shore continues to capture the mundane, but for his latest series, the American artist broadened his scope and focused his lens on the landscapes of Israel, Abu Dhabi, and Ukraine.
