Paris Photo announces 149 galleries and 31 art book dealers representing 28 countries. The selection includes specialist dealers showcasing historic and rare work, like the 47 rare and vintage prints by Bauhaus artist Florence Henri (ATLAS London) or a retrospective solo show by Chargesheimer » (Julian Sander Cologne), cutting edge galleries promoting innovative young artists, and major international galleries highlighting today’s most significant artists working with image-based art like Richard Avedon » , Daidō Moriyama » (Hamiltons London) or Isabel Muñoz » (Esther Woerdehoff Paris). Another highlight will be a pre-release of 7 photographs from the series This Empty World by Nick Brandt » (Edwynn Houk Gallery) previewing their exhibition starting in New York February 21, 2019; in London at February 6, 2019 (Waddington Custot + Atlas Gallery); in Berlin February 15, 2019 (Camera Work); and in Los Angeles February 28, 2019 (Fahey/Klein).

Welcomed this year are 25 new galleries (compared to 2017) including 17 first-ever participations, testifying to the vivacity of the market and the increasing interest for image-based art. Returning galleries include Rosegallery (Santa Monica), Cécile Fakhoury (Abidjan), Feldbush Wiesner Rudolph (Berlin) with two solo shows of Thorsten Brinkmann » and Daniele Buetti » , Keith de Lellis (New York), Patricia Conde (Mexico) and after a long absence Priska Pasquer (Cologne) and Goodman (Johannesburg/Cape Town), the latter with a series of vintage photographs from the recently deceased David Goldblatt » .

Discover and rediscover leading artists through a viewing of an artistic ensemble with 27 solo shows: South African Santu Mofokeng » (Carlier Gebauer, Berlin); Steve Kahn » with an ensemble of conceptual works (Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco); Michel Journiac » with the iconic series 24 Hours in the Life of an Ordinary Woman (Christophe Gaillard, Paris); Ari Marcopoulos » presents American subculture (Frank Elbaz, Paris/Dallas); Mao Ishikawa » the emergence of female photographers in 1960s Japan (NAP, Tokyo); the American feminist artist Joan Lyons » , until now little presented in Europe (Steven Kasher New York); vintage works by Ralph Gibson » (Paci, Brescia/Porto Cervo); landscapes by Lynn Davis » (Karsten Greve, Paris/Cologne); and projects by Axel Hütte » (Nikolaus Ruzicka, Salzburg), Barbara Probst » "Exposures" always composed by a group of photographs (Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin), Erez Israeli » (Crone, Vienna). Katalin Nador » (ACB Budapest); Antti Laitinen » (Anhava Helsinki); Gerard Rondeau » (Baudoin Lebon Paris); Richard Mosse » (Carlier Gebauer Berlin); Erik Madigan Heck » (Christophe Guye Zurich); Barbara Hammer » (Company New York); James Nachtwey » (Contrasto Milan); William Wegman » (Huxley-Parlour London); Bastiaan Woudt » (Jackson Atlanta); Ugo Mulas » (Lia Rumma Milan / Naples); Guy Bourdin » (Louise Alexander Porto Cervo); Erwin Olaf » (Magda Danysz, Paris); Silvana Reggiardo » (Melanie Rio Fluency Nantes); Yojiro Imasaka » (Miyako Yoshinaga New York ); Jorma Puranen » (Purdy Hicks London ); Evangelia Kranioti  » (Sator Paris);

Book sector publishers and specialized art book dealers are reunited in the center of the Fair, recognized for their role in the continuing narrative of photography and the advancement of its artists. One of the Fair’s most animated sectors, visitors are offered an important selection of limited and rare editions and may attend book launches and over 200 signature sessions with renowned artists.

See the 2018 main sector galleries and publishers & art book dealers.

The PRISMES sector, presented in the prestigious Salon d’Honneur overlooking the main floor, showcases galleries presenting exceptional and historically significant ensembles, with 14 curated projects featuring large format works, series and installations exploring photography’s diverse forms and practices.

The Film sector, presented in the mk2 Grand Palais cinema, highlights the relationship between still and moving images with films and artist videos selected by Pascale Cassagnau (Head of Audiovisual Collections and New Media at Centre National des Arts Plastiques—CNAP) and Matthieu Orléan (Artistic Advisor at La Cinémathèque Française).

New for 2018, Paris Photo inaugurates the Curiosa sector, curated this year by independent curator and writer Martha Kirszenbaum (recently named curator of the French Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale). For this first edition a selection of erotic images will be unveiled, challenging our gaze on the fantasized and fetishicized body, and tackling relations of power, domination and gender issues.

This year the Fair celebrates women photographers with Elles x Paris Photo, a project headed by Fannie Escoulen (independent curator) and supported by the French Ministry of Culture, leading visitors on a parcours through the stands of Paris Photo and continuing on throughout the capital.

The Paris Photo Public Programme is a central aspect of the Fair providing visitors with first-hand insights and access to the art world. The programme includes curated exhibitions with renowned public and private institutions and Paris Photo partners including our official partners BMW and J.P. Morgan, the Platform cycle of talks with curators, artists, collectors and critics, the film programme, the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, Carte Blanche – Students, and special events exploring the unique history of the medium; varying visions, practices and emerging trends. The “In Paris during Paris Photo” programme reunites a dense network of cultural institutions, including major museums, arts centers, and private foundations throughout Paris comprising some of the world’s most historically rich photographic collections. Major photographic exhibitions include Dorathea Lange at Jeu de Paume, Martine Franck at Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson, JR at Maison Européenne de la photographie, August Sander at Memorial de la Shoah, The Nadar—A Photographic Legend at Bibliothèque Nationale de France.