Back to the future: cutting-edge images at Paris Photo – in pictures

The 25th edition of Paris Photo features cinematic landscapes, abandoned babies and a venture into the world of NFTs

Main image: Swim pickings … Charles Jourdan Ad Campaign by Guy Bourdin, 1976, The NFT Portfolio Photograph: Guy Bourdin

  • Gregory Crewdson: Untitled (Man in Forest with Hole), a NFT from the series Beneath the Roses, 2003-2008

    Fellowship is a new artist and collector-led photography organisation with NFT collections from emerging and established photographers. Central to its presentation at Paris Photo is Crewdson’s celebrated series Beneath the Roses, a visual exploration into the recesses of the American psyche and the disturbing dramas at play during moments of contemplation. The 25th edition of Paris Photo returns to the Grand Palais Éphémère from 10-13 November, 2022
    Gregory Crewdson: Untitled (Man in Forest with Hole), a NFT from the series Beneath the Roses, 2003-2008Fellowship is a new artist and collector-led photography organisation with NFT collections from emerging and established photographers. Central to their presentation at Paris Photo is Crewdson’s celebrated series Beneath the Roses, a visual exploration into the recesses of the American psyche and the disturbing dramas at play during moments of contemplation. The 25th edition of Paris Photo returns to the Grand Palais Éphémère from 10-13 November, 2022

  • Gregory Crewdson: Untitled (Trouble with Harry’s), a NFT from the series Beneath the Roses 2003-2008

    Made over the course of eight productions spanning five years, with a full feature-film crew, the pictures blur the distinctions between cinema and photography, reality and fantasy, what has happened, and what is to come. The display of digital APs as NFTs at Paris Photo will offer visitors a glimpse into Crewdson’s elaborately choreographed, large-scale cinematic photographs
    Gregory Crewdson: Untitled (Trouble with Harry’s), a NFT from the series Beneath the Roses 2003-2008Made over the course of eight productions spanning five years, with a full feature-film crew, the pictures blur the distinctions between cinema and photography, reality and fantasy, what has happened, and what is to come. The display of digital APs as NFTs at Paris Photo will offer visitors a glimpse into Crewdson’s newly opened retrospective at Gallerie d’Italia in Torino, celebrating the artist’s creative evolution over the past decade

  • Tania Franco Klein: Toaster (self portrait) from the series Our Life in the Shadows, 2016

    Tania Franco Klein’s work is influenced by her fascination with social behaviour and contemporary practices such as leisure, consumption, media overstimulation and emotional disconnection
    Tania Franco Klein: Toaster (self-portrait) from the series Our Life In The Shadows, 2016Tania Franco Klein’s work is influenced by her fascination with social behaviour and contemporary practices such as leisure, consumption, media overstimulation and emotional disconnection

  • Tania Franco Klein: The Car, from the series Our Life in the Shadows, 2016

    In her images, Franco Klein repeatedly creates the same context for a scene to happen
    Tania Franco Klein, Our Life In The Shadows, The Car, 2016

  • Tania Franco Klein, Positive Disintegration (self-portrait), from the series Our Life in the Shadows, 2016

    The spectator constructs their perception of the scene and the characters in it from their own cultural and personal history
    Tania Franco Klein, Positive Disintegration (self-portrait), from the series Our Life In The Shadows, 2016The spectator constructs their perception of the scene and the characters in it from their own cultural and personal history

  • Cristina de Middel: Fun Facts 099, 2022

    Cristina de Middel investigates photography’s ambiguous relationship to truth
    Cristina de Middel: Fun Facts 099, 2022Cristina de Middel investigates photography’s ambiguous relationship to truth

  • Cristina de Middel: Fun Facts 047, 2022

    In Fun Facts, de Middel plays with the manner of presenting information and combines it with photographic still lifes
    Cristina de Middel: Fun facts 047, 2022In Fun Facts, de Middel plays with the manner of presenting information and combines it with photographic still-lives

  • Cristina de Middel: Fun Facts 026, 2022

    In an attempt to challenge the audience, de Middel uses a combination of text and image that leaves the doors open for opinion, understanding and imagination
    Cristina De Middel: Fun Facts 026, 2022In an attempt to challenge the audience, de Middel uses a combination of text and image that leaves the doors open for opinion, understanding and imagination

  • Eman Ali: Salman from the series The Earth Would Die If the Sun Stopped Kissing Her, 2022

    In response to a month-long meditation on the artist’s surroundings in Oman, Eman Ali’s selection of work explores intimate interior settings and the beauty of the mundane
    Eman Ali: Salman from the series The Earth Would Die If The Sun Stopped Kissing Her, 2022 In response to a month-long meditation on the artist’s surroundings in Oman, Eman Ali’s selection of work explores intimate interior settings and the beauty of the mundane

  • Eman Ali: Between the Mountains from the series The Earth Would Die If the Sun Stopped Kissing Her, 2022

    The Earth Would Die If the Sun Stopped Kissing Her is an explorative, instinctive project that documents the daily, intimate, experiences of the artist and pays tribute to the land on which she lives
    Eman Ali: Between The Mountains from the series The Earth Would Die If The Sun Stopped Kissing Her, 2022The Earth Would Die If The Sun Stopped Kissing Her is an explorative, instinctive project that documents the daily, intimate, experiences of the artist and pays tribute to the land on which she lives

  • Eman Ali: Nusa from the series The Earth Would Die If the Sun Stopped Kissing Her, 2022

    Ali displays a gallery of individuals from the region – artists, friends and strangers who crossed her path – that she captures and celebrates for their beauty and uniqueness
    Eman Ali: Nusa from the series The Earth Would Die If The Sun Stopped Kissing Her, 2022Ali displays a gallery of individuals from the region – artists, friends and strangers who crossed her path – that she captures and celebrates for their beauty and uniqueness

  • Guy Bourdin Estate: Charles Jourdan Ad Campaign, 1976, The NFT Portfolio

    In the second half of the 20th century, French photographer Guy Bourdin amassed one of the most enduring visual legacies in fashion photography. As a leading photographer for Vogue and other top fashion magazines, the artist spent decades cultivating a provocative and radical vision that continues to influence the work of contemporary photographers
    Guy Bourdin Estate: Charles Jourdan Ad Campaign, 1976, The NFT Portfolio In the second half of the 20th century, French photographer Guy Bourdin amassed one of the most enduring visual legacies in fashion photography. As a leading photographer for Vogue and other top fashion magazines, the artist spent decades cultivating a provocative and radical vision that continues to influence the work of contemporary photographers

  • Guy Bourdin Estate: Archives, 1968

    Bourdin’s practice created its own rules while exploring the arenas of surrealism, theatricality, absurdism and sublimity
    Guy Bourdin Estate: Archives, 1968Bourdin’s practice created its own rules while exploring the arenas of Surrealism, theatricality, absurdism and sublimity

  • Guy Bourdin Estate: Charles Jourdan Ad Campaign, 1979

    Bourdin’s pictures crafted worlds in which there was no such thing as ordinary, and that all visions were cloaked in alluring and provocative sexuality
    Guy Bourdin Estate: The NFT Portfolio
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