--- title: Report from Paris Photo: 13 of the Best Exhibitions from the Fair description: Photo historian and poet Carole Naggar writes for LightBox on some of the top exhibitions at the 17th annual celebration of Paris Photo — from Daido Moriyama and Sylvia Plachy to Malik Sidibé and more. canonical: https://time.com/3804418/report-from-paris-photo-13-of-the-best-exhibitions-from-the-fair/ author: Carole Naggar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2013-11-18T19:04:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:40:36.503Z article:section: World og:title: Report from Paris Photo: 13 of the Best Exhibitions from the Fair og:description: Photo historian and poet Carole Naggar writes for LightBox on some of the top exhibitions at the 17th annual celebration of Paris Photo — from Daido Moriyama and Sylvia Plachy to Malik Sidibé and more. og:url: https://time.com/3804418/report-from-paris-photo-13-of-the-best-exhibitions-from-the-fair/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt22c7d19e1b1de522/6987e43135ba6f3872c0a134/12-plachy.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 12.Plachy og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Report from Paris Photo: 13 of the Best Exhibitions from the Fair twitter:description: Photo historian and poet Carole Naggar writes for LightBox on some of the top exhibitions at the 17th annual celebration of Paris Photo — from Daido Moriyama and Sylvia Plachy to Malik Sidibé and more. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt22c7d19e1b1de522/6987e43135ba6f3872c0a134/12-plachy.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Report from Paris Photo: 13 of the Best Exhibitions from the Fair > Sponsored content. 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Suddenly, drops of water drip through the beautiful 19th century Beaux-Arts iron and glass vaults of the Grand Palais where 136 galleries and publishers are hosted for the 17th annual celebration of Paris Photo, headed by Julien Frydman. Gallery owners scramble to cover the photographs with plastic sheets…and then, the sun shines again. The **Protest Book 1956-2013** exhibit, curated from Martin Parr’s collection, ranges from anonymous or self-published books and brochures to classics by famous photographers such as Philip Jones-Griffiths’s _Vietnam Inc._, Peter Magubane’s _The Fruit of Fear_ or Richard Avedon’s _Nothing Personal._ The issues concern civil rights, nuclear arms, gay and women issues, African-American civil rights, the Arab Spring… My only regret is that very few of the book spreads are visible in the vitrines. At Jérôme Poggi gallery, the focus is on several series by **Sophie Ristelhueber**, ranging from the devastated facades of Beirut and Armenia to the overviews of the Kuwait desert. War and suffering are never shown directly but through their reflections in landscape or in scarred bodies such as those of the striking series _EveryOne_. At Bruce Silverstein Gallery, I discovered some unknown (by me), lush color work of wooden walls with geometric motifs in a square format by **Aaron Siskind**, made in Bahia in the 1980s. Galerie Polka had series by war photographer Stanley Greene, prints from Salgado’s recent work _Genesis_, and striking, enlarged contact sheets of **Daido Moriyama**’s _Labyrinth_, that he created by mixing together negatives from disparate rolls of films, regardless of chronology or provenance. It is an immersion into over fifty years of images. At Galerie Vu, another discovery was _Le Temps d’Avant_ (1966-1969), square color images that **Bernard Faucon** did when he was still a teenager, before he became known for his staged photographs of mannequins. Van der Elsken series on love in St Germain des Prés (1961) and Anders Petersen’s _Café Lehmitz_ complete this flashback into the sixties. At Howard Greenberg’s gallery, the choice is extraordinary, from Roy deCarava’s still life to Gordon Parks Harlem portrait, and prints of Kertesz, Brassai, Gjon Mili, Saul Leiter, Bill Brandt… I especially enjoyed **Vivian Maier**’s self-portraits: she was a nanny who worked in Chicago from the 1950s into the late 1990s and whose beautiful body of work was only discovered by chance after her death in a thrift auction house. André Magnin gallery specializes in African photography, a field long ignored, with photographs by well-known artists such as studio portraitist **Malik Sidibé** but also unknowns such as Seydou Keyne or J. Dokhai Ojeikere, who photographed elaborate African hairstyles. The Daniel Blau gallery made an amazing discovery in the archives of a photo agency that was closing: to celebrate **Robert Capa**’s 100th anniversary (he was born in 1913), they exhibit 65 prints that he made on European war fronts in Italy, France and Russia. An entire wall of mostly unknown photographs, shot in Rolleiflex and 35mm, to discover. Beyond Paris Photo, the feast has spilled all over town with fifty other photography shows, most of them lasting into December and the new year. The **Brassai** retrospective at the Hôtel de Ville is one of the best. Apart from his famous images from the book _Paris by Night_, his studies of Picasso in his studio and his café shots, I was especially drawn to a poetic, mysterious set of images taken at Les Halles market: a black man carrying a meat carcass across his shoulders, like Christ with his cross. A new gallery, Le Comptoir Général, also home to a bar and a restaurant, specializes in showing unknown work made in 1960s African photography studios. Their current show of **Oumar Ly** is a series of portraits of villagers clothed in their Sunday best, against a makeshift painted background. The work is strong and fresh. **Marc Cohen**’s _Dark Knees_ at Le Bal is intriguing, stark and sophisticated, capturing fragmented slices of life from his hometown Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It is a world askew, vibrating. **Sylvia Plachy**’s nostalgic and ironic portraits at Espaces 54 seem to capture their subjects’souls. Marguerite Duras’s serious gaze, Jorge Luis Borges leaning on a wall next to his shadow, Adrian Brody as a child, blowing a chewing gum that veils his face… Coinciding with Paris Photo’s opening, the daily **Libération** published this Thursday an entire issue where photographs are but empty white rectangles, with only copyrights and captions. The editor explains that while the photography market is blossoming, magazines are dwindling and the fate of press photographers, war photographers in particular, remains uncertain, dangerous and poorly paid. Set in Paris’s current flood of images, this homage _in absentia_ seems to make photography all the more visible. --- [**_Carole Naggar_**](http://www.carolenaggar.com/) _is a photo historian, poet and_ [_regular contributor to LightBox_](http://lightbox.time.com/contributor/carole-naggar/)_. She recently wrote on_ [_the work of Swedish photographer Anders Petersen_](http://lightbox.time.com/2013/11/12/stark-close-ups-on-europes-late-night-regulars/)_._ ---  Jorge Luis Borges, New York, 1982 Sylvia Plachy—Courtesy Galerie Espaces 54, Paris  Marie-Louise & Fils Oumar Ly—Ccourtesy Comptoir Général, Paris  Christmas Night, 1963 Malick Sidibé—Courtesy Magnin-A, Paris  Sicilian Hospitality, Troina, Sicily, early August 1943 Robert Capa—ICP/Magnum/Agentur Focus/Courtesy Galerie Daniel Blau  Self-portrait, New York, 1954 Vivian Maier—Maloof Collection Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York  Michel à la chapelle, 1969; from the series Le Temps d’Avant Bernard Faucon—Courtesy Agence Vu  Le Roi Soleil; from the series Graffiti, c. 1930 Brassai—Brassai Estate  EveryOne #3, 1994 Sophie Ristelhueber—Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi  Bahia, 1984 Aaron Siskind—Courtesy Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York Report from Paris Photo: 13 of the Best Exhibitions from the Fair ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3804418/report-from-paris-photo-13-of-the-best-exhibitions-from-the-fair/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3804418/report-from-paris-photo-13-of-the-best-exhibitions-from-the-fair/"},"headline":"Report from Paris Photo: 13 of the Best Exhibitions from the Fair","datePublished":"2013-11-18T19:04:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:40:36.503Z","description":"Photo historian and poet Carole Naggar writes for LightBox on some of the top exhibitions at the 17th annual celebration of Paris Photo — from Daido Moriyama and Sylvia Plachy to Malik Sidibé and more.","url":"https://time.com/3804418/report-from-paris-photo-13-of-the-best-exhibitions-from-the-fair/","keywords":["LightBox","robert capa","Out There"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt22c7d19e1b1de522/6987e43135ba6f3872c0a134/12-plachy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Carole Naggar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/carole-naggar/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt22c7d19e1b1de522/6987e43135ba6f3872c0a134/12-plachy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"12.Plachy","caption":"Jorge Luis Borges, New York, 1982","creditText":"Sylvia Plachy—Courtesy Galerie Espaces 54, Paris","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-lightbox/","name":"LightBox"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3804418/report-from-paris-photo-13-of-the-best-exhibitions-from-the-fair/","name":"Report from Paris Photo: 13 of the Best Exhibitions from the Fair"}}]}] ```