Paris Photo 2023

The Fahey/Klein Gallery pairs together an assemblage of photographers whose varying approaches to the medium cohesively celebrates the personality and physicality of their subjects. The gallery’s presentation is a cross-section of niche areas of life, rich with vitality, and documented through intimate portraits and sculptural imagery by artists:

Janette Beckman

Günter Blum

Allen Ginsberg

George Hoyningen-Huene

Steve Schapiro

Agnés Varda

Bastiaan Woudt

The photographers included occupied countercultures, sub-cultures, and pivotal social and cinematic movements of the 20th century. Allen Ginsberg and Agnés Varda celebrate instrumental artists within their respective artistic communities of beat poetry and French New Wave cinema. Ginsberg’s portraits reveal his close relationship with and admiration of his subjects, immortalizing moments of personal significance. Varda’s Visages de Cinéma series features portraits of cinematic colleagues she encountered during her pioneering filmmaking career as a director, screenwriter, and artist.

Janette Beckman and Steve Schapiro documented cultural icons as they crafted their legacies both in the early days of hip hop and rap as well as the Civil Rights Movement. Beckman’s documentary photographs of foundational hip-hop groups, such as N.W.A., chronicle a subculture once marginalized, now celebrating its 50th anniversary. Schapiro’s photojournalistic imagery is nuanced by his humanistic approach and empathetic portrayal of subjects from all walks of life.

The photographs of George Hoyningen-Huene, Günter Blum, and Bastiaan Woudt exemplify the construction of imagery through design focused on balance. Hoyningen-Huene’s illustration of elegance with ease nods to the monolithic grace of Classical Greek architecture. Blum celebrates the strength in womanhood by combining handmade constructions of leather and metal with the softness and sensuality of the figure. Woudt’s contemporary fashion imagery and 21st-century technique echo Hoyningen-Huene’s historical inspiration while exploring new boundaries of charcoal tones, flattened depth of field, and graphic yet graceful silhouettes.

Paris Photo | November 9th – 12th, 2023

Grand Palais Éphémère

Paris

Booth A02