Paris Photo a Visual Extravaganza
Paris Photo, presents its 21st edition from 9 to 12 November 2017 at the Grand Palais in Paris.
A Photography lovers must see event. Paris Photo offers access to the best photography in the world with more than 180 galleries and publishers. The festival offers a complete panorama of the history of photography. From historical and modern works to contemporary creation, from rare and limited editions to previews of artists’ books . Paris Photo invites its visitors to deepen their knowledge of the photographic medium. Through exhibitions, awards, signature sessions, events, series of discussions led by artists, curators, critics and invited historians.
Sarah Moon
The photographs by Sarah Moon exposed by Camera Obscura are unsettling by their pictorial aspects and their impressions of softness. Indeed, the veiled light caused by the quality of the carbon print as well as the diaphanous light that emanates from the photography reminds us of impressionist works.
Thus the “Le chapeau grenat” creates an illusion evoking, with finesse and elegance, painting through the contemporary eye of a photographer.
Sarah Moon, Le chapeau grenat, 2016, ©Sarah Moon, 57 x 43 cm, Tirage charbon couleur, Œuvre exposée par : CAMERA OBSCURA
Dominique Paul
The surprising series of photomontages “Insects of Suriname” by the artist Dominique Paul exposed by Miyako Yoshinaga at PARIS Photo. Depicts an extraordinary and psychedelic world worthy of a painting by Jerôme Bosch. The idea of metamorphosis and hybridity of the body being central in his work. Dominique Paul transforms “insects” by fragmentation, mutation and games of scaling the bodies the men from Suriname, the least densely populated country in South America.
Dominique Paul, Insects of Suriname 23, 2014. © Dominique Paul, 198 x 147 cm. Archival pigment print, Œuvre exposée par : MIYAKO YOSHINAGA
Harry Gruyaert
The light in Harry Gruyaert’s photographs are so absorbing that it almost gives off heat. The graphic rigor conferred by the straights lines of the shadows. Together with the design of cars and buildings marks the affirmed style of Harry Gruyaert. Appearing calm and empty the landscapes are akin to a break in time. Suspended moment, in the manner of Edward Hopper painting.
East/ West, 2017, Éditions Textuel, 21 x 312, livres reliés sous coffret, Œuvre exposée par: TEXTUEL
Christianne Feser
Christianne Feser plays with our senses by proposing a work that combines two dimensions and three dimensions. Clever volume and shades deceive our visual perception. An ingenious optical illusion is imagined by the photographer with the use of shadow, giving impression of a graphic drawing.
Christiane Feser, Partition 75, 2017, ©Christiane Feser. 110 x 80 x 2 cm. Photo Object – Archival Pigment Inkjet Print, Œuvre exposée par : ANITA BECKERS
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Patrick Michael Hughes is a fashion and decorative arts historian. He writes about fashion culture past and present making connections to New York, London and Copenhagen's fashion weeks with an eye toward men's fashion. He joined IRK Magazine as a fashion men's editor during winter of 2017.
He is often cited as a historical source for numerous pieces appearing in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNN, LVMH, Conde Nast, Highsnobiety and others. His fashion career includes years as a fashion reporter/producer of branded content for the New York local news in the hyper digital sector. Patrick's love of travel and terrain enabled him to becoming an experienced cross-country equestrian intensively riding in a number of locations in South America Scandinavia,The United Kingdom and Germany. However, he is not currently riding, but rather speaking internationally to designers, product development teams, marketing teams and ascending designers in the US, Europe and China.
Following his BA in the History of Art from Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York he later completed graduate studios in exhibition design in New York. it was with the nudge and a conversation in regard to a design assignment interviewing Richard Martin curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art he was encouraged to consider shifting his focus to the decorative arts with a concentration in fashion history and curation.
Patrick completed graduate studies 17th and 18th century French Royal interiors and decoration and 18th century French fashion culture at Musée Les Arts Decoratifs-Musée de Louvre in Paris. Upon his return to New York along with other classes and independent studies in American fashion he earned his MA in the History of Decorative Arts and Design from the Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Design Museum program in New York. His final specialist focus was in 19th century English fashion and interiors with distinction in 20th century American fashion history and design.
Currently, he is an Associate Teaching Professor at Parsons School of Design leading fashion history lecture-studios within the School of Art and Design History and Theory,
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