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Paris Photo: Nuns Shooting Guns, Captured on Polaroid
Photo by From the Musée d'Elysée Polaroid collection, on view at Paris Photo 2011Amid the big name, big money William Egglestons and Thomas Struths hanging on the walls around you at Paris Photo, there...
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Paris Photo: Fishing Lake Chad By Night
Photo by © Abdoulaye Barry 2010Abdoulaye Barry's "Pêcheurs de nuit," photographs of night fishermen in Lake Chad, was among some of my projects at Paris Photo. These were part of the special exhibition...
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Indie Photo Books Ad Infinitum at Offprint Paris
Offprint Paris, in its second year running as an unofficial companion event to Paris Photo, is a large exhibition of independent photo book publishers, designers and distributors from around the world....
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Familiar Faces Honored In Prominent New Photobook Award
Photo by © Michael JangAlong with the festival season, the year-end awards season for photography is also heating up. At the beginning of the year, we talked about why 2012 is the year of the...
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An American Photomag in Paris
Photo by © Patrick GiraudAs we've been mentioning in some of our articles over the past few weeks, photography's event season culminates this week in Paris, headlined by the five-day Paris Photo...
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Paris Photo: Timm Rautert
Photo by © Timm Rautert, courtesy Galerie ParrottaThe best photo I saw at Paris Photo wasn't one photo, but two. Mounted in the same frame, this diptych is by Timm Rautert, who was certainly my...
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Paris Photo: The Life and Times of a Hungarian Ice Cream Truck
Photo by © Szabolcs BarakonyiThere were plenty of photography shows outside the walls of Paris Photo, and one of the most interesting sets of work I saw was at the Hungarian Institute of Paris. Among a...
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The Hidden Grace Of Baseball, By Way of the Television Screen
Photo by © Mauro AltamuraHow many times have you watched baseball on TV and marveled at the grace of the players--sprinting for catches, rounding the bases, occasionally crashing into each other or...
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The Thrill of the Open Road
The road trip is already a mythic part of American culture, and American photography as well. What about the actual experience of driving, though? Lee Friedlander has recently showed photographs taken...
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Photographic Paper, Decades Past Its Expiration Date
Photo by © Alison Rossiter / Courtesy of Stephen Bulger GalleryAt Paris Photo, I met a woman who is doing research into the "materiality of photography," or in other words, the physical properties of...
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