Friday, May 8, 2015

Paris Photo LA


Last week I attended Paris Photo LA (note bene: you say Pear-EE, like Gay Paris, not PEAR-is, like the Loveliness of Paris) this is a famous French photo fair now enjoying its third year as a satellite fair in LA. A three-day festival of fine art photo galleries showing off their wares, the fair is held on the backlot of Paramount Pictures—so while some of the galleries’ booths are housed in sound stages, many are inside the little fake storefronts of the faux-New-York street sets. It was very fun to stroll among the pretend buildings and look at art alongside the super casual chic denizens of LA’s art scene (think gorgeous breezy sundresses and designer shades and beautifully tousled children—someone seriously should have been shooting street fashion photos here, they would have had a field day). The level of art being exhibited was very high—I saw something amazing in nearly every booth I visited. I noticed that portraiture was especially prevalent, and strong. Though this post is very long, it's just a fraction of the photos that caught my eye!


David Alan Harvey

 
R. J. Arnold, 1890s

 
Francois Fontaine
 
 
Jamel Shabazz,  1981
 
 
Claude Iverné
 
 
Garry Fabian Miller

 
Hassan Hajjaj
 

 
Todd Hido
 
 
Zoe Crosher
 
 
Anton Corbijn
(Keith Richards in drag)
 
 
Alejandro Guijarro
 
 
Mona Kuhn
 
 
Malick Sidibé
 
 
Guido Mocafico


 
Ralf Peters
 
 
Santiago Porter


 
Nobuyoshi Araki and Motoyuki Daifu
 

 
Floriane de Lassée



Zoé T. Vizcaíno



Ramiro Gomez

 
Grace Ndiritu
 
 
Daniela Comani
 
 
Fred Herzog, 1961
 
 
Angela Strassheim
 


 
Josef Hoflehner
 
 
Liu Zheng
 

 
Peter Liversidge
 

 
Antoine Rose
 


Marten Elder

 
Tal Shochat
 
 
Richard Caldicott
 
 
Richard Avedon
 

Unglee

 
Desiree Dolron
 

Baudouin

 
Richard Misrach
 
 
Julien Levy
 
 
Juergen Teller
 
 
Fred Herzog
 

 
Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre
 

 Kimiko Yoshida

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