The Book Talks, organized by Printed Matter in collaboration with Paris Photo, offers a platform to artists and their publishers to discuss the connections between the artist’s book and photography.

The first edition of this program will be held during Paris Photo, 13-16 November, from 2 pm to 5 pm, at the Grand Palais. Each day, the program will include:

– A one-hour conversation between two or three artists, researchers, curators, publishers, editors, collectors, among others, about historical or contemporary themes around the photobook as artist’s book. Each exchange will be articulated around a specific question or proposition on the current state of bookmaking.

– Three 30-minute sessions, each dedicated to a new publication. These exchanges will bring together artists, publishers, graphic designers, authors, and other actors involved in bookmaking. Each publication will highlight the work of one particular artist. Priority is given to publications whose artists will be attending. In total, 16 conversations will feature over 35 speakers, all of whom committed to addressing the contemporary challenges of the photobook.

Limited seats, simultaneous translation.

Watch the Book Talks on parisphoto.com after the fair.

Thursday Nov. 13
2 p.m. L is for Look: Exploring Children’s Photobooks
Lesley A. Martin – Olivia Arthur » Frédérique Destribats, Anne Lacoste
Featuring L is for Look: Children’s Photobooks (Spector/Institut pour la photographie/Photo Élysée) and
Lee and the Sea Things (Bel et Bien Éditions)

3 p.m. Thyago Nogueira on Paiter Suruí, Gente de Verdade: um projeto do Coletivo Lakapoy (Instituto Moreira Salles)
In conversation with Susan Meiselas »

3:30 p.m. Rinko Kawauchi » on M/E (delpire & co)
In conversation with Lesley A. Martin

4 p.m. Renée Mussai on Black Chronicles (Thames & Hudson)
In conversation with Keisha Scarville »

4:30 p.m. Erik Kessels » on MAN and An Incomplete Encyclopedia of Touch (RVB)
In conversation with Karel de Mulder

Friday Nov. 14
2 p.m. Sasha Kurmaz » on Red Horse (Images Vevey)
In conversation with Stephano Stoll

2:30 p.m. Éva Szombat » on Echo in Delirium (Symposion and Everybody Needs Art)
In conversation with Maia Asshaq

4 p.m. Joan Fontcuberta » on Against Barthes: The Eye and the Index (MACK/Actes Sud)
In conversation with Sonia Berger

Saturday 15 Nov.
2 p.m. Archive in Print Hoda Afshar » , The Fold (Loose Joints)
Salomé Erni, Interesting Things (self-published), In conversation with Taous Dahmani

3:30 p.m. Eric Tabuchi » on Kristen & Yass (Poursuite)
In conversation with Clément Chéroux

4 p.m. Mari Katayama » on Synthesis (MACK/SPBH Editions)
In conversation with Pauline Vermare

4:30 p.m. Bharat Sikka » on Ripples in the Road and Elephant in the Room (FW: Books)
In conversation with Brendan Embser

Saturday 15 Nov.
3 p.m. Ying Ang » on Fruiting Bodies (Perimeter)
In conversation with Dan Rule

3:30 p.m. Coreen Simpson » on Coreen Simpson: A Monograph (Aperture)
In conversation with Michael Famighetti

4 p.m. Wolfgang Tillmans » : Photography on the Printed Page
Nothing could have prepared us – Everything could have prepared us (Centre Pompidou/Spector)
In conversation with Lesley A. Martin