This time, the announcement of the results of the US elections has barely affected sales at the Paris photography fair. “In 2016, during Trump’s first election, some collectors canceled sales”recalls the American gallery owner Hans Kraus. This specialist in 19th century photographymy At its stand, Century offers a rare landscape from 1856, signed by the British Roger Fenton (1819-1869), where the clouds take center stage, for $495,000. On Wednesday, November 6, several dealers had already sold works, such as Gil Rigoulet, who dedicated his entire stand to modernist photography – with a very mysterious photograph by Roger Parry (1905-1977), a solarized montage from 1930 in which They superimpose a hand and a Paris metro map, at 20,000 euros.
The great world fair of the still image successfully returns to the Grand Palais in Paris, with a space multiplied by ten (21,000 square meters compared to 16,000 before the restoration of the building), where traffic has become much more fluid in the hallways. , with new open spaces above. The 2024 edition draws special attention due to the important presence of classical works in black and white of modest size, after years of mastery of color, and very large-format contemporary art. Impossible to miss, upon entering, the spectacular installation “Men of 20my century”, masterpiece of the portrait painter August Sander (1876-1964), who attempted a typology of German society shaken by the two world wars, presented here in its entirety with its 619 images, in engravings from the 90s, of his great-grandson, the gallerist Julian Sander – for the price of “several million euros”.
Photojournalists
Throughout the fair, several photographs of Robert Frank (1924-2019) are also on display, whose centenary of his birth is celebrated on Saturday, November 9; the Pace gallery presents portraits of artists such as Allen Ginsberg, Willem de Kooning and Jack Kerouac taken by the photographer. Several gallery owners also dedicate their stands to photojournalists: Gilles Caron (1939-1970), at the stand of the Anne-Laure Buffard gallery, with some old prints Raro, or the Spanish Ramon Masats (1931-2024), in the Alta gallery. It is a former photojournalist, Denis Malartre (1952-2017), who occupies the entire stand of gallery owner Thierry Bigaignon: for two years, locked in his house, he composed an abstract and minimalist work, sold as a single set of 50 images, for 230,000 euros.
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