Paris Photo 2021: Panorama of photographic creation in eight images

Paris Photo, rendez-vous majeur pour le marché de la photographie, est de retour cette année après l'annulation de l'édition 2020. Du 11 au 14 novembre, 149 galeries sont représentées au Grand Palais Éphémère au Champs de Mars à Paris. Des galeries majeures aux émergentes, la foire est l'occasion de découvrir ou re-découvrir tous les styles et époques de ce médium, l'un des préférés des Français. De l'argentique au numérique, de la photo documentaire ou conceptuelle, pour en voir de toutes les couleurs ou en noir et blanc. Voici notre choix subjectif de huit oeuvres de huit artistes différents à surtout ne pas rater.

Cy Twombly, a photographer painter

The star of the photo show is a painter.Known for his canvases influenced by literature and the gesture of writing, the artist Cy Twombly throughout his life has photographed.

Whether it is the peaceful landscapes of his place of birth in Lexington in Virginia, roses with delicate petals, or a little rotten lemons, there is a sweetness, an intimacy in these images.These blurred developments borders on melancholy.Cy Twombly's photographs are presented by the Gagosian gallery.

Pilar Albarracin shakes up the codes of the Spanish macho

Leparcours ""They x"" puts women women forward.Always a necessity when you know that only 32% of the artists present are women.Pilar Albarracin, at Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois, therefore obviously had her place in this course.She lives and works in Seville and Madrid.For 30 years, she has embodied and explodes in her images the stereotypes of the Spanish woman.By diverting and parodying, it denounces with a false lightness.Activist and diverting of clichés, performer and joyful, her images flashed like the memories of a movida of yesteryear.

From art brut at Tomasz Machcinski

A grain of madness and an extraordinary story in Christian BERST: Tomasz Machcinski since 1966, long before Cindy Sherman, paint the portrait 22,000 times in 22,000 different characters.In turn, orphan, homeless, worker and artist, this Hunchback Polish after a dirty tuberculosis, created these roles as in the theater, then fixed them on film.

At the time of Communist Poland, it was silver in black and white.Today is digital in color.An anthology of historical, anonymous or transvestite characters.And as he says himself: ""So I realize my dreams"", raw photography like art.

Elsa and Johanna, a road movie for two

They too, photograph and slip into the shoes of their characters.But at Elsa and Johanna, two young French artists barely thirty, it is the aesthetics of cinema and series that dominates.

For Find the Truth at Forest Divonne, they settled in Calgary in Canada and built this photo novel, this road movie.Simon Baker, director of the European House of Photography, tells them as follows: ""They are somehow more actresses Actors Studio, and we can easily imagine them (...) Keep the clothes of their characters, after the photo shoot,Wear them when they go home, by car, spend their evenings and their free time in the skin of their characters and perhaps even live in the sets they use.""

The land collapses and Julien Guinand photography

Few galleries tell the climatic disruption and its effects.The market is cautious, we imagine the little desire to expose the terrible face of the world that awaits us.La Galerie Francoise Besson has this courage by showing the remarkable work of Julien Guinand.

The photographer from the world of plastic arts and letters captured for three stays of gigantic work in Japan following landslides.To save villages or dwellings in these areas in danger, following deforestation or mining, man tries sparadraps to avoid the worst. Ces remèdes sur les terres sont comme ""des pansements de béton couvrant les montagnes"", écrit le photographe.With the images of Julien Guinand, the suffering earth looks like a sick body, where the trace of care becomes an illusory scar.

A photograph of Luc Delahaye is a painting

Between 1980 and 2000, photojournalist member of the SIPA and MAGNUM agencies, Luc Delahaye covered conflict zones.At the edge of the new millennium, her work changes angle and point of view.And on the stand of Nathalie Obadia, how not to be amazed by this portrait at the foot of a farmer on a dry land.It's frontal: gesture, pace, reality without artifices, the visitor is immediately caught up in the character.

A l'occasion de son exposition où était exposée cette série, il y a un an, Luc Delahaye expliquait sur France Culture son travail dans ce village d'Afrique : ""Je crois qu’avec ces photographies, plus qu’avec celles que j’ai pu faire dans le passé, je me suis attaché à dépasser la réalité objective, apparente, matérielle, et j’ai été tiré, un peu malgré moi, mais avec mon consentement, vers une autre dimension, peut-être un peu plus spirituelle"".A documentary photograph, but which flirts with the pictorial and the spiritual, with the universal.

Looking for Yulia Timoshenko

Dans la section ""Curiosa"", sorte de cabinet des curiosités, comme son nom l'indique, voici une série drôle, absurde et politique : Timoshenko's escape, présentée par la galerie Alexandra de Viveiros.The Ukrainian politician Timoshenko and her braided crown hairstyle was one of the symbols of the orange revolution.

His image had become a symbol.When she becomes a political prisoner in her country, the two artists stage her escape, imagining a chase in the streets of her city.Or how photography rebels and laughs at totalitarian powers.

Committed, activist: the photograph of the South African Sue Williamson

Political commitment also, through the photographic work of Sue Williamson, at Dominique Fiat.She is now 80 years old, and she is one of the most important South African artists.Native of the United Kingdom, his family went to South Africa in 1948. En 2020, elle racontait son enfance dans Telerama : ""Nous sommes arrivés en juin 1948, raconte l’artiste.I was 7 years old.In November of the same year, the elections gave victory to the nationalists and marked the start of the establishment of apartheid "".In the 1970s, this photographerblanche joined the fight against apartheid.She documents segregation and still today she explores the discrimination that continues to haunt her country, with new migrants arriving from other African storytelling.

""Paris Photo"" au Grand Palais Éphémère du 11 au 14 novembre au Grand Palais Ephémère.A virtual visit to the fair is visible on the Paris Photo Viewing Room online.