Paris Photo

Looking back on when we visited Paris photo on the France trip back in november, i remember the distinctly huge layout of Paris photo. The art floor was completely open and divided by 8ft stud walls which contained some of the most elaborate and contemporary photography at the current time.

Some of the work from the exhibition was dated right back to even Ansel Adams and before, with Adam's work on the national Park, using his large format camera created images of the world as seen through your eyes, un-touched natural landscapes.

I heard about the 2012 event happening at the gallery and i decided to check out the reviews in a magazine and online. Some of the work displayed was the same as the previous year, but new work including photographs by Shomei Tomatsu, taken from his extraordinary category of photographs.

Tomatsu is know as the man who changed Japanese photography,Sometimes brilliantly surreal and always using an unsparing documentary eye, His inspiration is to capture images in a country in the flux of postwar change. 

Paris photo has the plan of inviting the world of top photographers to have their work all in one large space for up and coming artists or photographers to explore their mediums and techniques and to contrast and apply to further educational purposes.

http://www.parisphoto.fr/actualites.html

Images taken from

http://www.teppertakayamafinearts.com/shomei_tomatsu/0015.htm