Paris Photo 2013

The Paris Photo Platform this year is co-directed by Nicolas Bourriaud, director of École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris and Chantal Pontbriand, curator and art critic, founder of Pontbriand W.O.R.K.S. [WeMyself and others Research_Knowledge_Systems]. The Platform is organized around three lines corresponding to the state of thinking and practices that provoke debate in the world of art and photography today:

Photography challenged by the world

How is photography changing at a time when the world seems to be paradoxically both growing and shrinking? Has ethnographic photography, based on the idea of the existence of people and places that are “other”, taken with it the idea of documentary photography? A collection of travel shots and exotic film stills, protocols for relationships with residents, a mise-en-scène offsetting what is local and what is global, an archeology of images in various regions of the world, all this and more feed into these questions.

Encyclopedic fantasy

Influential art historian Aby Warburg opened out the discipline at the beginning of the last century to include a new concept of working with images. Today, a number of contemporary artists following this line of thought explore taxonomies and iconologies. This “encyclopedic fantasy” is in line also with the use that artists today make of archives. What is the meaning of this focus on the past and on the historical weight of the image?

Photography, painting, limits?

What lies beyond the incestuous ties between photography since its invention and the tradition of painting? How do new technical and sociological developments, and even developments in artistic thought itself, push these ties and these limits ever further? What about the image’s ability to overshadow itself, a process found in a number of artists’ work, pushing dematerialization to its limits to the point of even overturning it?

EXHIBITORS: 303 Gallery / Actes Sud / AKAAKA / ALAIN GUTHARC / ANALIX FOREVER / André Frère Éditions / ANGELS BARCELONA / ANTICUARIA POEMA 20 / APERTURE / ASYMETRIA / Ben Brown Fine Arts / Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain / BERNARD BOUCHE / Bernheimer Fine Art Photography / BERTRAND GRIMONT / BONNI BENRUBI / BOOKSHOP M / Bourouina Gallery / BRANCOLINI GRIMALDI / Bruce Silverstein Gallery / CAMERA OBSCURA / CAMERA WORK / CARLOS CARVALHO / CHARIM GALERIE / Cheim & Read / CHLOE ET DENIS OZANNE / CHRISTOPHE GAILLARD / CHRISTOPHE GUYE / CONRADS / CONTRASTO / DANZIGER / David Zwirner / DIRK K. BAKKER BOEKEN / DOMINIQUE FIAT / DU JOUR AGNES B. / EAST WING / EDITIONS XAVIER BARRAL / EDWYNN HOUK / ERIC DUPONT / ERIC FRANCK / espaivisor - Visor Galley / ESTHER WOERDEHOFF / FELDBUSCHWIESNER / FEROZ / FIFTY ONE / FILIGRANES / FILOMENA SOARES / FLATLAND / Flowers Gallery / Fraenkel / FRANÇOISE PAVIOT / FRANK ELBAZ / GAGOSIAN / Galeria Vasari / Galerie Daniel Blau / GALERIE KARSTEN GREVE / Galerie Melanie Rio / Galerie Paris-Beijing / Galerie Polka / Galerie Susanne Zander / Galerie Tanit - Munich/Beyrouth / GALERIE WILMA TOLKSDORF / Gallery Luisotti / GILLES PEYROULET / GITTERMAN / Glaz / Grafika la Estampa / GUIDO COSTA PROJECTS / HACKELBURY / HAMILTONS / HANS P. KRAUS JR. / HARPER'S BOOKS / HATJE CANTZ / HOWARD GREENBERG / HUSSENOT / ILAN ENGEL / IN CAMERA / IRVING ZUCKER ART BOOKS / Ivorypress / James Hyman / JEROME POGGI / JOHANNES FABER / JÖRG MAASS KUNSTHANDEL / KEHRER VERLAG / KLAUS KLEINSCHMIDT / KLEMM'S / Koenig & Clinton / KUCKEI + KUCKEI / La Galerie Particulière / LAURENCE MILLER / LE REVERBERE / LES EDITIONS DE L'ŒIL / LES FILLES DU CALVAIRE / LIBRAIRIE 213 / LUMIERE DES ROSES / m BOCHUM / M+B / MACK / MAGDA DANYSZ / MAGNIN-A / MAGNUM GALLERY / MARTIN ASBÆK / MEM / Metro Pictures / MICHAEL HOPPEN / Michael Werner Kunsthandel Cologne / MICHELE CHOMETTE / Mörel Books / Mummery + Schnelle / Nailya Alexander Gallery / Nathalie Obadia / NIKOLAUS RUZICSKA / OBSIS / ODILE OUIZEMAN / OLIVER J WOOD / ONLY PHOTOGRAPHY / PACE/MACGILL GALLERY / PARADISE ROW / PARROTTA / PETER LAV / PHAIDON / PHOTOetCONTEMPORARY / POLARIS / PRISKA PASQUER / PURDY HICKS GALLERY / RAÍÑA LUPA EDITIONS +R / RHONA HOFFMAN / RM / ROBERT HERSHKOWITZ / Robert Klein Gallery / ROBERT KOCH / ROBERT MANN GALLERY / ROBERT MORAT / ROLF ART / ROSEGALLERY / RX / SAGE PARIS / SCHOOL OLIVIER CASTAING / SILVERLENS / STEIDL / STEPHEN BULGER GALLERY / STEPHEN DAITER / STEVEN KASHER / STEVENSON / SUPER LABO / SUZANNE TARASIEVE / TAIK PERSONS / TAKA ISHII / TARO NASU / TASCHEN / Tasveer / THE THIRD GALLERY AYA / THESSA HEROLD / THOMAS ZANDER / TISSATO NAKAHARA / TOLUCA / VINTAGE / Von Lintel Gallery / VU' / WESTLICHT / XIPPAS / YANCEY RICHARDSON / Yossi Milo.

Paris Photo 2013

venue:
Grand Palais, Paris