Per
me uno di quegli appuntamenti obbligatori - come il Festival di Hyères e il
Salone del Mobile - a cui prima o poi riuscirò ad andare; lo giuro!
Consoliamoci
con la marea di foto a disposizione della “stampa” e con uno sforzo di
concentrazione per immaginarsi proprio lì, al Grand Palais, dal 15 al 18
novembre, per quella che si preannuncia un’edizione da segnare negli annali.
I motivi sono tanti ma,
prima di parlare del numero crescente di espositori - ben 128 gallerie e 23
editori di libri fotografici - e di tutte le mostre, gli incontri e i dibattiti,
non si può far finta di niente e sorvolare su ciò che classifica PP 2012 alla voce irripetibile.
Prendete
un personaggio cult - di quelli che vivono di immagini ma anche di quelli che
vorreste come migliore amico, vicino di casa o datore di lavoro -, subissatelo delle
foto in esposizione e fategli individuare le sue preferite.
Avrete
un punto di vista alternativo e soprattutto una chiave per penetrare un universo
interiore complesso e affascinante.
L’iniziativa - tradotta
anche in una app e in un volume irrinunciabile pubblicato da Steidl - si chiama
Paris
Photo Vu Par...... e ciò che la rende assolutamente geniale è la scelta
del personaggio ossia l’uomo delle strade perdute e delle scatole magiche,
l’uomo delle vette gemelle e delle tende vermiglie, l’uomo del Silencio!, il
maestro, David Lynch.
According to me, it’s one of those obligatory
appointments - like the Festival of Hyères and the Salone del Mobile - to which
I’ll succeed in going sooner or later.
Let’s console ourselves with the flood of photos
at press’ disposal and with a concentration effort to imagine ourselves there,
at Grand Palais, from the 15th to the 18th November, for an edition that looks
to go down in the annals.
The reasons are many but, before talking about the
increasing number of the exhibitors – 128 galleries and 23 publishers - and the exhibitions, the meetings and the
debates, we can’t pretend nothing happened and pass over that describes PP 2012 as unique.
Take a cult personality who lives on images,
overwhelm him with the photos on display and make him choose his favorite ones.
You’ll have an alternative viewpoint and
especially a key to penetrate an inner, many-sided and fascinating world.
The venture - translated
into an app and a volume published by Steidl - is called Paris Photo Vu Par…. and
what makes it brilliant is the choice of the figure or rather the man of the
lost highways and magic boxes, the man of the twin peaks and vermilion
curtains, the man of the Silencio!, the master, David Lynch.
The David’s selection includes deformity, strange
boiling fluids, crumbling houses; if he had opted for something else I’d have
worried.
La
selezione del nostro David non poteva prescindere da deformità, nebbie misteriose, case fatiscenti, ma se avesse optato per altro mi sarei
preoccupata.
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| Helen Levitt - New York City - c. 1939 - Laurence Miller |
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| Daido Moriyama - Show Window - 1990 - SAGE Paris |
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| Georges Tony Stoll - Ma main, ta main - 1997 - courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi |
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| Ester Vonplon - Surselva - 2009 - © Ester Vonplon - Galerie VU' |
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| Arno Nollen - Girl with Bathcap - 2011 - courtesy Galerie Jousse Enterprise |
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| Joel-Peter Witkin - Death is like lunch....it's coming - 2011 - baudoin lebon |
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| Louis Heilbronn - Red Flowers - 2012 - © Louis Heilbronn - Polaris |
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| Sarah Moon - Avril - 2003 - Camera Obscura |
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| Susanna Hesselberg - A Mere Shadow - 2010 - © Susanna Hesselberg - courtesy School Gallery Paris |
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| Tiane Doan na Champassak - Untitled (from the series Spleen and Ideal) - 2011 - East Wing |
Non
solo in spirito, David ci sarà anche in corpo, insieme a Hilla Becher, Rem
Koolhas, Martin Parr e gli altri grandi nomi che parteciperanno alle interviste
e tavole rotonde della Platform di Paris
Photo.
Continuando, il
programma prevede l’omaggio alla fondamentale opera di Bernd e Hilla Becher, la
presentazione delle nuove acquisizioni del LACMA (Los Angeles), del Winthertur Fotomuseum (Svizzera) e dell’Huis Marseille (Amsterdam),
David (oh my God!!) will be also present with
Hilla Becher, Rem Koolhas, Martin Parr and other big names who are attending to
the interviews and the round tables of the Paris
Photo Platform.
The schedule forecasts the homage to Bernd and
Hilla Becher, the presentation of the new acquisitions of the LACMA, the
Winthertur Fotomuseum and the Huis Marseille, the Acqua#2 exhibition by Giorgio Armani and those ones of the Archive
of Modern Conflict and of the J.P. Morgan Chase Art Collection, focused on
William Eggleston.
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| Acquisitions Récents - Nils Nova - Vera/Liz - Collection Fotomuseum Winthertur - © Nils Nova |
la mostra Acqua#2 a
cura di Giorgio Armani e quelle dell’Archive of Modern Conflict e della J.P.
Morgan Chase Art Collection incentrata su William Eggleston.
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| William Eggleston - Untitled (from the Graceland Portfolio) - JP Morgan Chase Art Collection - © Eggleston Artistic Trust - Courtesy Cheim & Reid, New York - Elvis image used by permission, Elvis Enterprises, Inc |
In
più i Photobook Awards in collaborazione con Aperture Foundation - ai due
migliori libri fotografici -, il premio SFR Jeune Talents, la mostra della giovane Alexandra Catiere,
vincitrice lo scorso anno del premio BMW.
Further, there will be
the Photobook Awards in collaboration with Aperture Foundation - to the
two best photographic books -, the SFR Jeune Talents prize, the
exhibition of the young Alexandra Catiere, winner last year of the BMW award.
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| Alexandra Catiere - Zacharie - 2011 - © Alexandra Catiere |
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| Alexandra Catiere - Emile - 2011 - © Alexandra Catiere |
Aggiungeteci
le esposizioni allestite dalle gallerie - da Dominique Fiat la serie The
Fragile Feast realizzata da Hannah Collins seguendo una serie di
conversazioni con Ferran Adrià,
Add the galleries’
expositions - the series The Fragile
Feast by Hannah Collins at Dominique Fiat, the Beat Generation by
Wallace Berman and Charles Brittin at Frank Elbaz or the recent works by Adam
Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin about the subjectiveness and the limits of the
documentary shots at Paradise Row - and the works of Joel-Peter Witkin,
Isabelle Le Minh, Mimmo Jodice, Axel Hütte, Gabriele Basilico, Weegee, Shirin Neshat,
Wallace Berman, Ari Marcopoulos, Lyonel Feininger, Brassaï, Man Ray, Irving
Penn, Berenice Abbott, Candida Höfer, Nobuyoshi Araki or Daido Moriyama.
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| Hannah Collins - The Fragile Feast - 2011 - Courtesy Hannah Collins e Dominique Fiat |
la Beat Generation
di Wallace Berman e Charles Brittin da Frank Elbaz
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| Charles Brittin - Untitled (Bob Alexander, John Reed, Wallace Berman, Juanita Dixon and Walter Hopps outside Ferus Gallery) - 1957 - © 2012 The Charles Brittin Archive - Galerie Frank Elbaz |
o i lavori recenti
di Adam Broomberg e Oliver Chanarin sulla soggettività e i limiti degli scatti
documentaristici da Paradise Row - e le opere di autori come Joel Peter Witkin,
Isabelle Le Minh, Mimmo Jodice, Axel Hütte, Gabriele Basilico, Weegee, Shirin
Neshat, Ari Marcopoulos, Lyonel Feininger, Brassaï, Man Ray,
Irving Penn, Nobuyoshi Araki o Daido Moriyama e si potrebbe andare avanti all’infinito.
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| Joel-Peter Witkin - The Reader - Paris, 2011 - baudoin lebon |
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Isabelle le Minh - Derrière la Gare Saint Lazare, Série Trop tôt, trop tard - Paris, 1932 - Galerie Christophe Gaillard
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| Weegee - At the Jazz Concert - ca. 1945 - Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery |
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| Ari Marcopoulos - Alice - 2008 - Galerie Frank Elbaz |
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| Lyonel Feininger - Wet cobblestones - 1929 - © Adagp - Jörg Maaß Kunsthandel |
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| Brassaï - Odalisque Transmutation - Paris, 1935 - Courtesy Galerie Johannes Faber |
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| Irving Penn - Deli Pack - New York, 1975 - Pace/MacGill Gallery |
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| Nobuyoshi Araki - Oh! Nippon - 1971 - Tissato Nakahara |
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| Daido Moriyama - Bye bye photography - 1972 - Tissato Nakahara |
Aggiungeteci poi la concomitanza col Mois de laPhoto (tra gli eventi più interessanti Jean-Baptiste Huynh al Louvre, Gustave
Le Gray al Petit Palais, Manuel Alvarez Bravo al Jeu de Paume, Charlotte Dumas
all’Institut Néerlandais o Deborah Turbeville alla Galerie Serge Aboukrat).
E otterrete un risultato che non si sarebbe avuto
nemmeno con coincidenze astrali e riti propiziatori.
Per finire, Paris Photo raddoppia e dal 25 al 28
aprile trasmigrerà ai Paramount Pictures Studios di Los Angeles per un salone “figlio”
totalmente diverso: Paris Photo Los Angeles.
Adesso
non resta altro che immergersi…
Add then the
conjunction with the Mois de la Photo (among the most interesting events
Jean-Baptiste Huynh at Louvre, Gustave Le Gray at Petit Palais, Manuel Alvarez
Bravo at Jeu de Paume, Charlotte Dumas at Institut Néerlandais or Deborah
Turbeville at Galerie Serge Aboukrat).
And you’ll obtain a
result that not even astral coincidences and propitiatory rites could have
produced.
In conclusion, from the
25th to the 28th April Paris Photo
is gonna migrate to Paramount Pictures Studios in Los Angeles to give life to a
completely different fair: Paris Photo
Los Angeles.
And
now submerge yourself…..
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| Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin - Afterlife 5 - 2009 - Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve |
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| Alec Soth - Michelle - 2011 - Weinstein Gallery |
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| Anonymes - Jeanne Moreau - 1962 - Didier Grandsart Sarl |
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| Alex Prager - 4:01 pm Sun Valley - 2012 - courtesy Michael Hoppen Contemporary |
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| Annie Leibovitz - Andy Warhol - New York City, 1976 - Bernheimer Fine Old Masters e.K. |
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Diane Arbus - Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph - 1972 - © The Estate of Diane Arbus - Aperture
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| Jacques Sonck - Untitled (Antwerp) - 1980 - Fifty One Fine Art Photography |
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| Cathleen Naundorf - Secret Times (Grand Palais I) Chanel Haute Couture - Grand Palais, 2010 - Bernheimer Fine Old Masters e.K. |
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| Eva Schlegel - Untitled - 2009 - Galleri Bo Bjerggaard |
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| Francesca Woodman - Self-portrait from the series Polka Dots - Providence, 1976-77 - copyright Francesca Woodman - Robert Klein Gallery |
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| Fred Herzog - Granville Street - Vancouver, 1960 - Laurence Miller |
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Gabriele & Helmut Nothhelfer - Dame auf der Hundeasstellung in Tegel - 1973 - © Gabriele und Helmut Nothhelfer - courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander
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| Ihei Kimura - 1974 - Tissato Nikahara |
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Herb Ritts - Tatjana Veiled Head, Joshua Tree - 1988 - © Herb Ritts Foundation - courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery
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| Ilit Azoulay - Room #8, Wall no.2 - 2011 - Meislin & Popowich LLC |
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| Isa Lorenzo - Courtiers - 2012 - Silverlens Inc |
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| Jory Hull - Twin Test - 2012 - Feroz GmbH |
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| Georges Demeny - Animal Lomotion - 1887 - courtesy Galerie Françoise Paviot |
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| JR - Eyes - 2011 - Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery |
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| Karen Knorr - Avatars of Devi - 2010 - Eric Franck Fine Art |
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| Lousi-Emile Durandelle - Sculptors working on the marble decor - Opéra Garnier, Paris, 1860s - Hans P. Kraus Jr. Inc. |
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| Lucas Foglia - Homeschooling Chalkboard - Tennessee, 2008 - courtesy Michael Hoppen Contemporary |
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| Norman Parkinson - Le Groux Soeurs Hat - 1952 - Eric Franck Fine Art |
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| Stanley Mouse - Gloria Swanson - 1966 - Librairie Michael Seksik |
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| Steve Sabella - Botanical - 2012 - East Wing |
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| John Chiara - L-5 at Vista Point North - 2012 - Von Lintel Gallery LLC |
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| Toshiko Okanou - The Birth - 1956 - The Third Gallery Aja |
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Valérie Belin - Bride _ Fiat 124 Spider (Série Brides) - 2012 - © Valérie Belin - courtesy Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont - Art & Confrontation SARL
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| Kyoko Nagashina - Spin - 2005 - Tissato Nakahara |
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| William Klein - Dorothy blowing light smoke rings - 1962 - HackelBury Fine Art Ltd |
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| Anders Petersen - Soho - 2011 - Galerie VU' |
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| Jerzy Lewczynski - Such work may result in electric - 1950 - Galeria Asymetria |
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| Evelyn Hofer - Car Park - New York, 1965 - Galerie m Bochum |
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| S.M. Eisenstein - La pyramide - Photographie n & b réalisée lors du tournage du film de S.M. Eisenstein Que Viva Mexico! - 1931-32 - |
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| Jean Baptiste Huynh - Crystal Skull (Louvre) - 2012 - CAMERA WORK |
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| Bernard Plossu - Monet intime - 2011 - Filigranes Editions |
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