untitled Eric Emo - Galerie Polaris (Paris) During the space of four days in the Carrousel du Louvre, Paris Photo 98 will bring together exhibitors from 15 countries, including the most prestigious American, Swedish, Japanese and Australian galleries, as well as French galleries ranging from the most well-known photo specialists of the last several decades to art galleries that support both painting and photography. Two institutions, the Centre national de la photographie and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, will each participate with an exhibition. Photography, in both the "straight" and "fine art" modes, will be represented in all its technical and historical diversity, from rare 19th-century prints to the latest work of cutting-edge artists. Without claiming to be exhaustive–which would be impossible–this "virtual tour" takes a panoramic look at what visitors can expect from a show where for four days visitors will encounter an enormously rich array of photographs presented on a human scale.
Paris Photo, Europe's premier show entirely dedicated to art photography, includes the most prominent American galleries among its exhibitors.	Edwynn Houk Gallery, Marian Goodman, Howard Greenberg, William Floyd Gallery, Michael Senft Masterworks, James Danziger, Robert Miller Gallery, Photography: the Platinum Gallery, Howard Schickler, A Gallery for Fine Photography–these art market players are as important as the artists they show and represent, from Alfred Stieglitz to Robert Mapplethorpe, from Edward Steichen to Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Joel Peter Witkin. The quality of these works, as well as their variety, measures up to their reputation. Themes include jazz musicians (William Floyd Gallery), Surrealist photography of the 1920s and '30s (Michaël Senft), and astronomy and space photography at the Howard Schickler’s stand with works by David Malin, Lewis Rutherfurd and NASA. And the Robert Miller Gallery (New York) will present two one-person exhibitions devoted to Diane Arbus and Bruce Weber. Among the American photographers represented will be Eugene Omar Goldbeck (A Gallery for Fine Photography). In 1947 he took a world-record snapshot of 21,765 men at the San Antonio Air Force base grouped together in a "living insignia". In the five decades since then, this American photographer of the achievement of the impossible has roamed the world from the Château de Versailles to the Red Square in search of novel horizons. As for more contemporary artists, finally, there is the latest suite by Josephine Sacabo (A Gallery for Fine Photography) plus two new artists introduced by the William Floyd Gallery, Marc Valesella and France Bourély, who uses an electron microscope in her work.
For this second annual show, Paris Photo's international orientation is made even more far-reaching by the participation of Swedish, Australian and Japanese galleries.	The Zinc Gallery recently opened in Stockholm features two Finnish photographers whose work, like much of Scandinavian culture, revolves around the elements: Riitta Päiväläinen plays with the interaction between the environment and clothing in narrating a personal history. Jyrki Parantainen's main interest is fire. Since 1994 Parantainen has produced beautiful and violent images of rooms in flames, documenting the whole process from the peaceful scene before the match (the artist does his own interior decoration) to the moment of silence that follows the fiery destruction. The Byron Mapp gallery in Sydney, run by Sandra Byron and Penny Mapp, is Australia's principal photography gallery. This stand will show a wide range of Australian photographers, including the recognized and respected figures Olive Cotton, Max Dupin, David Moore, Philip Quirk, Henry Talbot, Lewis Morley and Jeff Carter, along with younger artists. James Houston, a fashion photographer, is also known for his shots of nude sculpture. In a very different vein, since 1980 John Williams has done photomontages drawing on archives and contemporary images, in an attempt to share a personal odyssey that reveals the consequences of the First World War on Australian culture. Many of the gaps in Europe's knowledge of modern and contemporary Japanese photography will be filled by Osaka's Picture Photo Space at Paris Photo. On view will be Eikoh Hosoe, a founding member of the Vivo agency, whose photos of naked bodies go beyond conventional eroticism, Daido Moriyama and Shoji Ueda. At the Galerie Camera Oscura (Paris), Yasuhiro Ishimoto. His latest pieces–evanescent shapes formed by clouds and traces of footprints in the snow–are representative of what is often considered an "Oriental" approach. From the new Japanese photography scene: Hiroshi Osaka (Picture Photo Space) and Nobuyoshi Araki (Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris). Finally, at Jean-Loup Couturier (Temps de Pose, Paris), Japanese artists’ books from 1950 to nowadays.
Paris Photo represents an opportunity to find rare or previously unexhibited works, unique old prints and recent pieces by contemporary photographers.	The American Brett Weston will exhibit in Paris Photo 98. The Swiss gallery Zur Stockeregg will show on this occasion some "vintage" proofs of the artist who - apart from being Edward Weston’s son - has produced with his wide-angle camera a body of work represented in many collections, particularly in New York (MoMA), wich he photographed on several occasions. Alongside him, thirty photographers from the end of the 19th century until the 1940’s, represented by major works of that time, in excellent condition.  Pierre Régnier (Agathe Gaillard) The gallerists Agathe Gaillard and Françoise and Alain Paviot (Paris), acknowledged specialists in photography since the 1970’s, will show artists who are very representative of the respective galleries’ histories. Berenice Abbott, Man Ray and Rogi-André will thus be seen at F + A Paviot’s alongside important elders of photography, such as Eugène Atget and Charles Nègre (a little-known Selfportrait of 1855), as well as contemporary artists - Anna + Bernhard Blume, Nancy Wilson-Pajic and Anne Mandelbaum. A similar aesthetic and temporal variety will be found at Agathe Gaillard’s, who will present alongside well-known master works (Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész) more contemporary works by Alejandra Figueroa and Pierre Reimer. E. van der Elsken (Agathe Gaillard) Orientalist photography will be found in the booths of Hypnos (Paris), a gallery dedicated to travel photography in the 19th century, and in A l’image du Grenier sur l’eau (Paris). Emile Freitton (A l’Image du Grenier sur l’eau) A real invitation to travel with Gustave de Beaucorp (Deux femmes marocaines, 1870), the Orientalist images clearly, at the turn of the 20th century, become a stage set, as well as a search for a well thought out aesthetic quality. Carried out in 1893-1894 by Alphonse Bertillon, an amazing anthropometric file which includes 400 anarchists from last century. Dressmakers, lawyers, motor mechanics or... photographers, these men and women are among the first to have been put on file by the judicial identity department for misdemeanours (Serge Plantureux, Paris). Along with original silver prints by Lionel Wendt (shot in Ceylon from 1935-1944), the Tom Peek gallery (Utrecht, Holland) will also offer a very rare series of original proofs by Lynn Davis (Edwyn Hook Gallery) Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotions, an artist's edition published in 1887 by the University of Pennsylvania in the U.S. At the Edwynn Houk (New York) stand, photos of heartland America by Sally Mann, and most notably a group of pieces by Lynn Davis in Africa showing, among other things, the rarely-photographed ruins of Meroe in Sudan, Zimbabwe's Victoria Falls and the great temple of Djenne in Mali. Michael Hoppen Photography (London) devotes its entire stand to Peter Beard, a unique event– for which the artist will be present. Paris Photo will be his first solo show in Paris since his exhibition in 1996 at the Centre national de la photographie (Carnets Africains–African Notebooks). For the first time the public will have the occasion to discover an extraordinary group of photos of Tirkana and the Hog ranch, Peter Beard's residence in the suburbs of Nairobi. Beard also utilized prints of older photos taken from his first book, Eyelids of Morning (1973), as backgrounds and materials for the making of very physical artworks that involve writing, collage, painting and even animal blood. Peter Beard (Michaël Hoppen) The Galerie 213 Marion de Beaupré (Paris) spotlights William Eggleston, the "inventor" of colour photography, with several original dye transfer prints. These highly sought-after pieces from the 1970s come from his celebrated work, The Guide. The original print Huntsville, Alabama is the last one available anywhere in the world. Also, very limited edition, large format prints by Elger Esser, and rare classics by Paolo Roversi hanging side by side with his latest portraits. French photography, of course, will be given the highest honours. The Thierry Marlat gallery (Paris) will show some 30 never-before-seen photos by Robert Doisneau taken from the Robert Giraud collection. The photojournalist Giraud was the man who introduced Doisneau to Les Halles and the world of Paris' night hawks. Surely the most famous icon of this microcosm is Mademoiselle Anita, a young woman photographed during the 1950s at the Boule Rouge. Also never exhibited a group of colour Polaroid shots by Lucien Clergue at the Baudoin gallery–nudes, portraiture, landscapes and other subjects seen through the eyes of Picasso's photographer, the founder of the Arles international photo festival. Among other work by new French photographers, a set of four giant cibachromes by Stéphane Couturier of the Villa de Noailles (in the city of Hyères), designed by Mallet-Stevens in the 1920s (a public commission by the Ministry of Culture and Communication, Galerie Polaris-Bernard Utudjian, Paris).
Large groups of photos that actually constitute solo shows will allow visitors to more deeply examine the work of particular artists and their evolution.	In addition to recent landscapes by Robert Bourdeau, the well-known Jane Corkin gallery (Toronto) presents work by André Kertész–a rare selection of photographs by this master from the 1920s and '30s. His extraordinary suite of photos from the avant-garde series Distortions, undertaken in 1933 in Paris, show female nudes as reflected in fun-house mirrors. They are somewhat reminiscent of the spatial experimentation and Constructivism in the work of Kertész's fellow Hungarian, Moholy-Nagy. Equally celebrated images include Notre Dame at Night and African Sculptures, self-portraits made starting in 1915 and a panoply of Surrealist photography. A sneak preview of the Kertész retrospective to be held at the National Gallery in Washington at the turn of the century. David Byrne’s work will be exhibited by the Italian gallery LipanjePuntin (Trieste). An atypical photographer despite his studies at the Maryland Institute art college, the director, screenwriter and founder of the group Talking Heads (1976-1988) did not show his art work publicly until recently. One of his latest installations from the Super-Ego series consists of four cibachromes placed on glowing pedestals. Their subject is Byrne himself, represented through the faces of four dolls displaying various facial expressions, made by Yuji Yoshimoto. These plastic fetish items and older work (the Sacred Objects and the Summa Scientiae Mundi series) can all be found at Paris Photo. Gisèle Freund (Nina Beskow) Christer Strömholm (Nina Beskow) The Gisèle Freund show organized by Nina Beskow for last year's Paris Photo met with great acclaim and allowed many visitors to encounter the work of this renowned photographer whose portraits captured so many writers and painters. In 1998 a dozen colour prints–which Freund pioneered in making in the 1930s–will help satisfy the clamour for more. This time Beskow will render homage to Christer Strömholm, winner of the 1997 Hasselblad Award for the ensemble of his work. The Swedish photographer, who celebrated his 80th birthday last July, is still not sufficiently well-known in France. Natalie Seroussi (Paris) devotes over half of her booth to Pierre Boulat, deceased this past year. A famous reporter for Life Magazine for over twenty years, Pierre Boulat captured the most intimate moments of Dali, Fernand Léger, Karen Blixen, Juliette Gréco, Gérard Depardieu, Henri Langlois... Black and white portraits, except for that of Yves Klein (1961), covered in the blue which bears his name. Finally Esther Woerdehoff (Paris) will show Alberto Garcia-Alix and his unflinching look at the marginal side of life, while Gabrielle Maubrie (Paris) will showcase Bill Owens, with thirty photographs representing his vision of the American Dream. Emanating from his cult book Suburbia (1972), the images represent the make-believe world of California middle classes with a touch of humour free of any cynicism. This unusual rendering of daily life opened up a subsequent field of interest for many artists.
Emerging artists of all nationalities are represented at Paris Photo–an important priority for this show is the promotion of the most recent and "edgy" aspects of contemporary photography.	Gabriel Orozco (Galerie Marian Goodman, New York/Paris, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris) For Gabriel Orozco, a Mexican artist living in New York (Marian Goodman Gallery, NY/Paris, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris), photography is one more tool to be used in his artistic experiments. His latest solo exhibition at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1998 combined various media (installations, drawing, etc.) so as to offer the visitor a global sensory experience. As Orozco wanders through the world, he uses photography to capture minor events and small gestures, fragile, low-key and enigmatic fragments of reality. The Marian Goodman gallery will display Orozco's work in New York in September 1998. Oleg Kulik (Galerie Rabouan Moussion) Among other young artists at Paris Photo: Nigel Shafran (The Photographers’ Gallery) and Elaine Constantine (Galerie 213, Marion de Beaupré), part of the British fashion photography scene; Natacha Lesueur (Françoise Knabe Gallery, Frankfort), who dresses her models in foodstuffs, a second skin that constitutes an ironic commentary on clothing; and the Italian Giulia Caira (LipanjePuntin, Trieste), also concerned with the issue of dress and appearances–while quite different from Cindy Sherman, Caira, too, seeks to push the envelope of self-portraiture to new limits. Florence Chevalier (les Filles du Calvaire) Also: John Metoyer's mystical cyanotyps and the delicate snapshots of Walter Nelson, who uses platinic prints on sheets of velvet-surface paper (Photography: the Platinum Gallery); the Russian Oleg Kulik (Galerie Rabouan Moussion); and, from Spain, Mabel Palacin (Helga de Alvear), winner of the Paris Photo 97 Prize. French contemporary photography is present in all its diversity in the galleries Anton Weller (Laura Lamiel, Xavier Point), Catherine Issert (Hugues Reip), Marion Meyer (Véronique Bourgoin) or Le Réverbère II, RE, Les Filles du Calvaire.
Paris Photo, the only European show devoted exclusively to photography, encourages the participation of artists, galleries and publishers for whom photography represents a forum for dialogue with other artistic media (drawing, painting, writing, etc.).	Art galleries that have a special propensity for photography are an essential element to Paris Photo. Martin Parr (Galerie du Jour Agnès b.) One of them is the Parisian Galerie du Jour agnès b. Since 1984, it has shown the work of about two dozen younger painters and photographers and invented new forms for making art and images available to everyone (sketches, stencils, silk-screens, classical printing, etc.). Agnès b. presents the work of three of its artists, Louis Jammes, Lucien Hervé and Martin Parr. Parr, a British photographer, gives us a glimpse of a different side of Japan–instead of the usual cliché of stressed-out crowds, here we see people asleep on a train (Japanese Commuters), so peaceful and unperturbed that they seem almost unreal. Artists' books are collectors' items that are not always as widely appreciated as they deserve. A major bookstore specializing in photography (La chambre claire) and five other publishers and bookstores are offering books for collectors illustrated by renowned photographers : Antiquariaat L. van Paddenburgh (Netherlands), Filigranes Editions, Temps de Pose and Florence Loewy, whose stand takes up the theme of photography and the movies. Coromandel Express will show The Coincidence of the Arts, a previously-unpublished novella by Martin Amis, with seven original illustration photos by Mario Testino and a box designed by Englishman Ron Arad; and Citizen Sidel, written by Jérôme Charyn, with six previously-unpublished snapshots of New York by William Klein. This collaboration, published in an edition limited to 80 copies, is Klein's first illustrated collectors' book. These 1996 pieces are from a return to his old stomping grounds, New York, where he had not shot photos for many decades. From my window, 1950 Josef Sudek Galerie Faber Fine Arts (Vienne) Finally, work by Jan Saudek, one of many artists who combine photography with other disciplines, is hanging at both the Galerie Krisal (Geneva) and the Faber Fine Arts Gallery (Vienna). In his basement-darkroom-studio, the leading Czech photographer of his generation creates expressionist nudes, erotic and baroque black and white images that he then partially colours by hand.
"Regards construits: photographie et architecture" (The Constructed Gaze: Photography and Architecture)–this Paris Photo 98 theme is in no way an arbitrarily imposed exercise. Rather it suggests the idea of architecture taken as image, and the image that results from the architecture of the gaze.	Modernist metallic architecture, off-centre shots of bridges, towers, wheels and girders–Germaine Krull (Galerie 1900/2000, Paris) is considered the main representative in France of the New Vision associated with the German Bauhaus movement. These celebrations of the city will be seen alongside the work of another artist born in Germany, Peter Wolff, and a selection of photos by Dora Maar from 1932-35. Georges Rousse (Galerie Durand-Dessert) At the stand of the Galerie Sollertis (Toulouse, France), a new series of photos by Roland Fischer–fragments of buildings that resemble the most purely geometric abstract paintings. Also by Fischer, a "monumental" work in the literal sense of the word: a sequence of large-format photos (more than 2 x 3 metres) entitled Beida-Students, 1997-98, comprised of frontal portraits of 460 students at Beida University, one of China's main schools. In addition to photos by William Wegman, the Galerie Durand-Dessert is also showing recent pieces by Georges Rousse. Until recently, this artist appropriated abandoned venues, where he painted the walls, floors and ceilings, and then took photos to bear lone witness to his work. His new pieces employ a different approach. Rousse has modified our perception of space through his own home-made architecture, a kind of site-specific sculpture-architecture descended from Schwitters' "Merzbau" that confronts the viewer with a new perception of space. At the same gallery, another "constructed gaze"–that of Patrick Tosani, who deconstructs the human body in space (the CDD series).
And also....	Howard Gilman, himself a photographer, at the Galerie Brownstone-Corréard et Cie (Paris). The Yvon Lambert gallery (Paris) will show - among several other artists - David Armstrong, Bernard Faucon, Nan Goldin, Louise Lawler, Sharon Lockhart, Andrés Serrano, David Schringley. Photojournalism, with a didactic exhibition of 80 proofs presented by Franco Pinna (Italy). Hungarian and Russian photography, antique, modern and contemporary with two renowned specialists: Csaba Morocz (Paris) and Carré Noir (Paris). And put on by Thaddaeus Ropac (Paris), a surprise one-man show...