The 20th Paris Photo Fair 2016 brought some of the finest photographers of all time together with the galleries that feature the best photography from around the world.
Source: Highlights from the Paris Photo fair – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
153 galleries and 30 publishers made up Paris Photo, the photography fair now in its 21st year. Here are just a few from this year’s exhibitors, to show how photography imagery can be so abstract yet show new detail, composition and form we don’t normally appreciate in normal observation. Paris Photo is held from 10-13 November at the Grand Palais, Paris
Salt Pans #25, Little Rann of Kutch, India – Edward Burtynsky
One of Burtynsky’s celebrated aerial shots showing man’s impact on the environment
Photograph: Edward Burtynsky/Flowers Gallery
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Ruths-Speicher – César Domela
As well as making pioneering photomontages like this one of 1928, Dutch artist César Domela was also a painter and sculptor, and a member of the De Stijl movement who championed abstraction alongside strong construction
Photograph: César Domela/Atlas Gallery
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Joan Didion in Berkeley, August 1972 – Roger Steffens
Steffens photographed countercultural California after he returned from the Vietnam war – his collection of tens of thousands of images is now a hit on Instagram
Photograph: Roger Steffens/© The Family Acid and Benrubi Gallery, NYC
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Distortion No 165 – André Kertész
A surrealist image from the Hungarian photographer who pushed photojournalism into bold new forms across Europe and the US in the 20th century
Photograph: André Kertész/Atlas
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Skogar #5084 – Boomoon
The Korean photographer is known for epic canvases that contemplate sky, land and sea
Photograph: Boomoon/Flowers Gallery
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Panambira, 2016 – Caio Reisewitz
Photograph: Caio Reisewitz/PineArt Contemporain & artist
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Citrons – François Kollar
The Hungarian photographer went from documenting the glitz of high-fashion Paris in the 1920s to the industry of interwar Europe
Photograph: Francois Kollar/courtesy Gilles Peyroulet & Cie, Paris
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Untitled II & III – Nadav Kander
As well as photographing campaigns for the likes of Air France and the English National Ballet, the British photographer creates a huge variety of portraits and landscapes, from nude studies to series in China and the American Midwest
Photograph: Nadav Kander/Flowers Gallery
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