Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2012 - Shortlist Selections

Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2012 Shortlist Selections

The thirty photobooks shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2012 were announced in The PhotoBook Review 003, Aperture’s biannual publication dedicated to the consideration of the photobook. 

In November 2011, Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation joined forces for The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, celebrating the book’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography. This year, the Awards focused on two major categories: First PhotoBook and PhotoBook of the Year.

The initial selection was made by  Phillip Block, Deputy Director of Programs and Director of Education at the International Center of Photography; Chris Boot, Executive Director of Aperture Foundation; Julien Frydman, Director of Paris Photo; Lesley A. Martin, Publisher at Aperture Foundation; and James Wellford,  senior international photo editor at Newsweek magazine. The selected photobooks will be exhibited at Paris Photo at the Grand Palais and at Aperture Gallery in New York; and will tour to other venues, to be determined.

A final jury in Paris, including Els Barents, Director of the Huis Marseille Museum for Photography; Roxana Marcoci, Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Curator of the Paris Photo 2012 Platform; Edward Robinson, Associate Curator of Photography at Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and  Thomas Seelig, Curator of the Fotomuseum Winterthur,  Timothy Prus, Curator of AMC Books, will select the winners for both prizes, which will be revealed at the opening of Paris Photo on November 15, 2012. The winner of First PhotoBook of the year will be awarded $10,000. 

Paris Photo is a leading international fair dedicated to nineteenth century, modernist, and contemporary photography. Held for the first time at the Grand Palais in 2011, Paris Photo will gather 127 French and international galleries from twenty-two countries, in November 2012. To complete this panorama of worldwide photography, a selection of twenty-three publishers and international specialized dealers will have a dedicated space at the fair.  The fair welcomes 50,000 enthusiasts and photography collectors from all over the world. Paris Photo will launch Paris Photo Los Angeles at the Picture Paramount Studios on April 24–28, 2013. 

Aperture, a not-for-profit foundation, connects the photo community and its audiences with the most inspiring work, the sharpest ideas, and with each other—in print, in person, and online. Created in 1952 by photographers and writers as “common ground for the advancement of photography,” Aperture today is a multiplatform publisher and center for the photo community. From its base in New York, Aperture produces, publishes, and presents a program of photography projects, locally and internationally. 

The ten shortlisted titles for the 2012 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook of the Year are: 

History Repeating

Photographer: Ori Gersht

Publisher: MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Texts by Al Miner (assistant curator, Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Yoav Rinon (professor of Comparative Literature at Hebrew University, Jerusalem), interview with the artist by Ronni Baer (William and Ann Elfers Senior Curator of Paintings, Art of Europe, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). Image Courtesy MFA, Boston

Retinal Shift 

Photographer: Mikhael Subotzky

Publisher: Steidl

“For me, photography has become a way of attempting to make sense of the very strange world that I see around me. I don’t ever expect to achieve that understanding, but the fact that I am trying comforts me.” Mikhael Subotzky

Edited by Ivan Vladislavic, book design by Michael Aberman and Emmet Byrne, 300 pages, 250 colour plates, 19 cm x 26 cm, clothbound hardcover. Retinal Shift is the first printed retrospective of Mikhael Subotzky's work. Image Courtesy Steidl.

Mikhael Subotzky was born in 1981 in Cape Town and is currently based in Johannesburg. The photographer is a member of the Magnum agency. Recent and upcoming Mikhael Subotzky's exhibitions: Grahamstown National Arts Festival, 28 June - 8 July 2012; Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth, 25 July - 5 September 2012; Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, 20 September to 11 November 2012; IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 28 November 2012 to 9 January 2013; Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, Bloemfontein, 27 February to 29 March 2013; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, 15 April to 23 April 2013 (Mikhael Subotzky was the winner of  the 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art) ; University of Potchefstroom Art Gallery, Potchefstroom, 27 June to 2 August 2013.

Rachael, Monique

Photographer: Sophie Calle
Publisher: Xavier Barral

(based on a true story)
Photographer: David Alan Harvey
Publisher: Burn Books

City Diary
Photographer: Anders Peterson
Publisher: Steidl

Book of Books

Photographer: Stephen Shore

Publisher: Phaidon

A landmark two volume limited edition collection of work by one of the world's greatest photographers. Image Courtesy Phaidon

Two Thousand Light Years From Home
Photographer: Pietro Mattioli
Publisher: Kodoji Press

Table of Power 2
Photographer: Jacqueline Hassink
Publisher: Hatje Cantz

She
Photographer: Lise Sarfati
Publisher: Twin Palms

A Head with Wings
Photographer: Anouk Kruithof
Publisher: Little Brown Mushroom

The twenty shortlisted titles for the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook are: 

Uncle Charlie
Photographer: Marc Asnin
Publisher: Contrasto

Afronauts
Photographer: Cristina De Middel
Publisher: Cristina De Middel

Concresco
Photographer: David Galjaard
Text: Slavenka Drakulić and Jaap Scholten
Publisher: David Galjaard

Summer Weather
Photographer: Michael Jang
Publisher: Owl and Tiger

Watching
Photographer: N&D
Publisher: Random Number 11

Jeddah Diary
Photographer: Olivia Arthur
Publisher: Fishbar

Metsästä, From the Woods
Photographer: Anne Golaz
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag

Sans titre, M. Bertillon
Photographer: Stéphanie Solinas
Publisher: RVB Books

Cette Montagne, C’est Moi
Photographer: Witho Worms
Publisher: Fw:

The Wrong Side: Living on the Mexican Border
Photographer: Jérôme Sessini
Publisher: Contrasto

Hired Hand
Photographers: Stuart Bailes, Bea Fremderman, Ingo Mittelstaedt, Athena Torri
Publisher: Vandret PublicaMons

Celebrity
Photographer: Kenji Hirasawa
Publisher: Bemojake

Cruising
Photographer: Chad States
Publisher: powerHouse Books

C.E.N.S.U.R.A.
Photographer: Julián Barón
Publisher: Editorial RM

Singular Beauty
Photographer: Cara Phillips
Publisher: Fw:

Dive Dark, Dream Slow
Photographer: Melissa Catanese
Publisher: The Ice Plant

A Natural Order
Photographer: Lucas Foglia
Publisher: Nazraeli Press

Interrogations
Photographer: Donald Weber
Publisher: Schilt

7 Rooms
Photographer: Rafal Milach
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag, Treemedia

Ama
Photographer: Nina Poppe
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag

In addition to the prize and the exhibitions of shortlisted books, Paris Photo at the Grand Palais in Paris will also host the exhibition Livre ouvert, featuring prints of Bernd and Hilla Becher, presented alongside the works from the exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher-Printed Materials, 1964-2012. As always, the fair will dedicate a space to publishers and specialist booksellers, and present newly listed titles, old and rare books, as well as limited editions. Numerous signing sessions with photographers are organized during the five-day event. 

Publishers Attending Paris Photo 2012 

AKAAKA Japan 
APERTURE United States 
ANTICUARIA POEMA 20 Argentina 
BOOKSHOP M Japan 
CHLOE ET DENIS OZANNE France 
CONTRASTO Italy 
DIRK K. BAKKER BOEKEN Netherlands 
FILIGRANES France 
FLORENCE LOEWY France 
HARPER’S BOOKS United States 
HATJE CANTZ Germany 
IRVING ZUCKER ART BOOKS United States 
KEHRER VERLAG Germany 
LES EDITIONS DE L’ŒIL France 
LIBRAIRIE 213 France 
MACK United Kingdom 
MICHAEL SEKSIK France 
OLIVER J WOOD United Kingdom 
ONLY PHOTOGRAPHY Germany 
RM Mexico 
STEIDL Germany 
TISSATO NAKAHARA France 
XAVIER BARRAL France 

Paris Photo 
Thursday, November 15 - Sunday, November 18, 2012
Grand Palais - Avenue Winston-Churchill - Paris
Website: www.parisphoto.com
Aperture Foudation Website: www.aperture.org

Paris Photo 2012, Grand Palais, Paris

PARIS PHOTO 2012

Grand Palais, Paris

15 -18 novembre 2012

Pour sa 16ème édition - Paris Photo accueillera en novembre sous la nef du Grand Palais 140 exposants provenant de 23 pays, et propose à nouveau cette année une programmation inédite : l’exposition « Acquisitions Récentes » des grandes institutions, l’exposition « Collection Privée », le Prix du livre (Paris Photo – Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards), l’exposition « Livre Ouvert » et la Plateforme de débats et d’entretiens. 

Cette année Paris Photo accueille sous la nef du Grand Palais 128 galeries et 23 spécialistes du livre de photographie.

L’exposition « Acquisitions récentes »  présentera les nouvelles collections photographiques du LACMA (Los Angeles), du Fotomuseum de Winterthur (Suisse) et de Huis Marseille (Amsterdam).

L’exposition « Livre ouvert » mettra à l’honneur les publications (livres et éphémeras) de Bernd & Hilla Becher (quelques photos ici), rendant ainsi compte de l’importance du support imprimé dans la formalisation de leurs typologies. Cette exposition a été organisée par le Musée de l'Elysée à Lausanne. Le visuel officiel de Paris Photo 2012, reproduit ci-dessus, se base sur une des photos classiques du couple de photographes. 

La Plateforme  proposera 4 jours d’événements live : entretiens, tables rondes et performances sous la direction de Roxana Marcoci, commissaire du département de photographie du MoMA de New York. Hilla Becher, Rem Koolhaas ou David Lynch y prendront la parole.

Enfin, pour la première fois, Paris Photo met en place un parcours inédit au cœur des galeries : « Paris Photo vu par… ». Ce parcours sera confié à une personnalité différente chaque année. En 2012, c’est à David Lynch que Paris Photo confie le soin de faire son choix parmi les œuvres exposées par les galeristes. Le parcours résultant de cette sélection sera identifié dans la Foire et pourra être suivi notamment sur l’application mobile Paris Photo. Une façon originale pour le public de contempler les œuvres tout en découvrant l’univers esthétique de David Lynch.

Paris’ Photographs Artist Book

Artist book Press Release

 

The book cover can be used for editorial purpose related to this book
© Gautier Willaume. Courtesy of the artist.
High Res. pictures available upon request to Wanafoto (above: "contact Wanafoto")

 

This artist book presents a serie of 24 black and white photographs from Paris.

For this book I choose fairly traditional topics about Paris. Perhaps I could have published in this little book photos with less conventional view of Paris. But I had to make a choice, and Paris offer a good opportunity for this kind of pictures. Living in Paris, I love spending a day or a weekend, adopting the posture of a tourist. It is in these moments that most of the photos included in the book have been taken, between 2005 and 2010.

This hand-made artist book printed with an inkjet printer on 200g drawing paper is limited to 100 numbered and signed.

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I’m french, so can you let me a comment if you find a mistake in this text translated from french to english :) Thanks ;)

 

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Artists, if you want to publish a post about your artist book on this blog, please send your text and (if you want) book cover or other image related to your artist book to wanafoto (“contact wanafoto” above). Of course, it is free!

Paris Photo 2009 horaires informations generales

 

 

PARIS PHOTO 2009 . 13e EDITION DU SALON INTERNATIONAL POUR LA PHOTOGRAPHIE XIXe, MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAINE

La scène arabe et iranienne à l’honneur

 

DATES : Du jeudi 19 au dimanche 22 novembre 2009

LIEU : Carrousel du Louvre
99 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris

HORAIRES D’OUVERTURE PARIS PHOTO 2009 :

Jeudi 19 novembre de 11h30 à 20h
Vendredi 20 novembre de 11h30 à 22h
Samedi 21 novembre de 11h30 à 20h
Dimanche 22 novembre de 11h30 à 19h

 

Prix d'entrée : 15 euros - 7,50 euros pour les étudiants,
Préachat entrée Paris Photo : les visiteurs peuvent préacheter leurs billets d’entrée coupe-file sur la boutique online du site www.parisphoto.fr

CATALOGUE PARIS PHOTO 2009 : 20 euros disponible sur le Salon au point Info Accueil à partir du 19 novembre.

Forfait catalogue + 1 entrée Paris Photo : 30 euros

 

SITE INTERNET PARIS PHOTO 2009 : www.parisphoto.fr

 

Composition du comité de sélection PARIS PHOTO 2009 :

Guido COSTA, Turin
Howard GREENBERG, New York
Tim JEFFERIES, Hamiltons Gallery, Londres
Edwynn HOUK, New York
Priska PASQUER, Cologne
Françoise PAVIOT, Paris
Timothy PERSONS, Taik, Helsinki
Renos XIPPAS, Paris/Athènes

 

Organisation :

Directeur général, Pôle culture, sports et loisirs, et commissaire général de Paris Photo :

Jean Daniel COMPAIN

Commissaire adjoint : Guillaume PIENS

Directrice de la communication et des partenariats : Catherine VAUSELLE

Paris Photo - Reed Expositions France,
52-54 Quai de Dion Bouton
CS 80001, 92806 Puteaux Cedex

Exposition Photo de Floriane de Lassée

Moscow Night Views

Après New York, Tokyo et Shanghai, la photographe Floriane de Lassée nous emmène à Moscou, une fois la nuit tombée.

Elle vient en outre de publier "Inside Views" aux Nazraeli Press qu'elle dédicacera le 15 novembre à 16 heure à la Foire d'Art Contemporain PARIS PHOTO (où elle expose du 13 au 16 novembre) et le 22 novembre à La Cartonnerie.

• Dates : du 30/10 au 29/11/2008
• Lieu : Bibliothèque TRANSACMER
• Adresse : 19 rue du Bac, 75006 Paris
• Accès : Métro Rue du Bac
• Horaires : du mardi au samedi de 11h à 13h30 et de 15h à 19h. Nocturne les jeudi jusqu’ à 21h
• Site : http://www.florianedelassee.com/

Cette exposition a lieu dans le cadre du Mois de la Photo Off 2008

• Dates : du 13/11 au 16/11/2008 (Dédicace de "Inside Views" le 15/11)
• Lieu : Foire d'Art Contemporain Paris Photo, avec la Galerie Philippe Chaume (Stand D2)
• Adresse : Carrousel du Louvre - 99, rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
• Site : http://www.parisphoto.fr/

• Date : 22/11/2008 - Dédicace de "Inside Views"
• Lieu : La Cartonnerie
• Adresse : 12, rue Deguerry, 75011 Paris
• Accès : Métro Saint-Maur / Parmentier

© Floriane de Lassée / Nazraeli Press - Tous droits réservés

Couverture du livre de Floriane de Lassée, Inside Views, Portland, Nazraeli Press, 2008, 96 p., 42 photographies couleurs.

Pour plus d'informations : http://www.florianedelassee.com/

5th edition of the BMW- Paris Photo Prize

The theme for 2008 is “Never Stand Still”. The short-listed works will be on view during Paris Photo and the award ceremony itself will take place on Thursday, November 13, 2008.

Launched in 2003 to support contemporary photography, the BMW–Paris Photo Prize has become in less than five years an important landmark in the world of international photography.

A panel of prestigious international experts will select the winner of this 12,000 euros prize from among the living artists represented by Paris Photo 2008 participating galleries.

The 2008 Jury : Marta Gili (director of Jeu de Paume), Vicki Goldberg (writer and lecturer), Stephen Shore (artist), Nicolas Wertans (CEO of BMW France), Eric de Riedmatten (director of communication, BMW France), Anne Wilkes Tucker (curator, photography department, Houston Museum of Fine Arts), Michael Wilson (collector).

• Venue: Carrousel du Louvre, 99 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris, France
• Opening hours: Thursday, 13 November from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm,
• General admission: 15 €, 7.50 € for students and groups
• Information: http://www.parisphoto.fr/

Paris Photo 2008 - A promising wind blows in from contemporary Asia

From November 13 to 16, 2008, Paris Photo, the world’s leading fair for 19th century, modern and contemporary photography, will bring together 107 exhibitors (86 galleries + 21 publishers) from 19 countries at the Carrousel du Louvre.

A deeply renewed selection

The 2008 selection will bring a profound change with a record number of first-time exhibitors (38%, or 31 new arrivals) and one of the highest rates of foreign participation (78% of exhibitors are non-French.) The largest contingent of exhibitors comes from the USA with 18 galleries, followed by France (17), Japan (14), Germany, Spain and the UK (7 each), Holland (3), Italy (3) and one representative for each of the following countries: Austria, Belgium, China, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, South-Africa, South-Korea. Australia and India will be making their first appearance at the fair (1 gallery each). While Asia will gain unprecedented exposure this year, the 2008 selection will also favour focussed exhibition projects: one-man shows for several major contemporary artists (Boris Mikhailov at Guido Costa, Martin Parr at Janet Borden, Dayanita Singh at Nature Morte, Alec Soth at Weinstein…) and thematic, museum-like hangings (“19th Century Sculpture Photographs” at Daniel Blau, « 40 British Calotypes » chez Robert Hershkowitz”, “The School of Chicago” at Stephen Daiter, “Theater and life” at Michael Stevenson…). The 2008 fair will showcase the works of some 500 international photographers and artists from all continents, offering the expected 40,000 visitors a panoramic view of fine art photography from its early days until now.

Spotlight on Japan : an exceptional overview of Japanese photography

For the first time, Paris Photo is looking towards the Far East and inviting Japan as its guest of honour. This coincides with growing international interest in Japanese photography. Photography has been one of the most intense and major areas of Japanese culture since it was first introduced in the country in 1848, towards the end of the Edo Period. With work by more than 130 artists, Paris Photo will offer an exceptional overview of a unique vision, from the Meiji era to 1930’s avant-garde movements and the post-war years through to the most contemporary production. To date, no exhibition in Europe has brought together such a large number of Japanese photographers. About thirty galleries in the General Sector will feature Japan’s great classic masters (Shoji Ueda, Ihei Kimura, Masahisa Fukase, Eikoh Hosoe, Shomei Tomastu) and contemporary artists (Hiroshi Sugimoto, Nobuyoshi Araki, Daido Moriyama, Naoya Hatakeyama). The Statement Section, comprising eight invited Japanese galleries, and the Project Room dedicated to video art will present the exciting work of a young generation of artists mainly born in the mid-sixties and the seventies. A publishers’ space will highlight the central role of photobooks on the Japanese photography scene. Paris Photo invited the independent curator and photography critic Mariko Takeuchi to curate “Spotlight on Japan”. Details

Dates: Thursday, 13 November– Sunday, 16 November, 2008 Opening by invitation only: Wednesday, 12 November, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Venue: Carrousel du Louvre, 99 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris, France Opening hours: Thursday, 13 November from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm, Friday, 14November from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm, Saturday, 15 November from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm, Sunday, 16 November from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm General admission: 15 €, 7.50 € for students and groups Catalogue: 20 € Information: www.parisphoto.fr