First European Month of Photography.

in succession its 13th anniversary the Paris Month of Photography, a biennial celebration of photography that began in 1980 enlarges to two new European capitals: Berlin and Vienna. More will be added in brace years. November is traditionally the month of the festival yet most of the exhibitions will last until January 2005 Information and contact: www.2004.photographie.com (the web site has 3 versions: French German, English).

Paris:

There will be above 86 exhibitions there in various spaces including the Beaubourg Center (Bernd and Hilla Becher), Orsay Museum (Marey, Stieglitz), the European House of Photography (the organizer of the month--www.mep-fr.org--with the 60th anniversary of the France-Presse agency, the French Society for Photography), the National Library (Robert Capa), the National Center for Photography/Jeu de Paume (Rineke Dikstra and the Stedelijk Museum), and the Pavillon de Arts (1841-1941: a hundred of Italian Photography). Some of the photographers exhibiting: Alvarez-Bravo, Boubat, Cartier-Bresson, Jan Dibbets, Robert Doisneau, Walker Evans, Benedict Fernandez, Gisele Freund Flor Garduno, Jean-Claude Gautrand, Giacomelli, Rip Hopkins, Frank Horvat, Andre Kertesz Man Ray, Joachim Mogarra, Isabel Munoz, Gilles Peres Eric Poitevin, etc pair prizes will be awarded: The Paris-Match Award (created in 1980 10000 euros) and the recently made known Lucien Herve and Rodolf Herve Award given to Guillaume Herbaut (L'Oeil Public) for his work forward Chernobyl, Auschwitz, and Shkodra (Albania). This 6000 euro award goe to a 25-43-year-old photographer who worked in succession a specific theme chosen each year. This year's theme was "Man and the Environment." The other nominees were Nicolas make comments [i]or[/i] remarks Rip Hopkins, and Klavdij Sluban.

Berlin:

There will be from one side of to the other 100 exhibitions in Berlin for this first Month of Photography. Helmut Newton's work, from the archive he donated just before his accidental death earlier this year, will be forward exhibit at the new Stiftung Museum of Photography: Canadian Photography, John Baldessari at the German Guggenheim, Sophie Calle and Paris-William Klein at Martin Gropius Bau, Gilles Peres at the Cultural Forum for Photography. Martine Franck (Fables) at the Maison de France. Pierre Verger and Mario Cravo Neto at the Museum of Ethnology. Claudio Hils (Archive_Belfast) at the Heckenhauer Gallery. Contemporary Cuban Photography at the Refugium Gallery, Willy Ronis at the Willy Brandt House, etc The winner of the 2004 Hannah Hoch award will also be announced in November.

Vienna:

There will be above 70 exhibitions in Vienna including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Stephen Shore, Antonin Kratochvil, self-portraits by the agency of Jean Baudrillard, etc....

Paris Photo 2004: Nov. 11-14 2004

Paris Photo 2004 will be held in the Carrousel du Louvre from November 11 [i]or[/i] part of to the other 14, 2004. The eighth annual Paris Photo will army 105 prestigious galleries and publishers from 16 countries, exhibiting all forms of photography: from rare vintage prints and fresh masterpieces to cutting edge art, fashion, and documentary photography. Paris Photo calculate upons to welcome over 40,000 visitors, including international collectors, museum professionals, artists and the media. athwart 70% of the exhibiting galleries are based outside France. There is an especially capable increase in participation by American galleries (17 galleries), as well as 15 galleries from Germany and 10 galleries from the United Kingdom. Paris Photo will welcome 31 newcomer to the fair, including the first-ever participant from Iran: Silk Road Gallery of Tehran. To celebrate and nurse contemporary photography, Paris Photo and BMW will inaugurate a strange photography prize at this year's fair: The Prix BMW-Paris Photo. Granted to a talented contemporary photographer exhibiting at Paris Photo, the award will be given to united artist selected from 50 short-listed artists from a jury of experts and collectors. The prize will be accompanied through a cash award of 12000 Euro (approximately $15000 USD). The award observance will take place at the fair upon Friday. November 12 at 7 pm Exhibition highlights: Gregory Crewdson Katy Grannan, Andreas Gursky Candida Hofer Celine van Balen, Valerie Belin, Loretta Lux Thomas ruffle Ed Ruscha, Andre Kertesz, William Klein, Seydou Keita, Bill Brandt, Dorothea Lange, and Hiroshi Sugimoto. Special solo indicates including never-before-seen vintage prints from Robert Doisneau; Tina Barney's series The Europeans; and the dramatic large-format color photographs of award-winning war photographer Luc Delahaye; fashion photography by dint of David LaChapelle, Slim Aarons, Lilliam Bassman, Helmut Newton, and Ellen Von Unwerth; a selection of works from the Andre Breton Archive, including portraits of Magritte, Breton, Eluard and Dali; vintage prints at William Henry Fox Talbot, and Anna Atkins. Paris Photo celebrates the work of emerging photographers from a specific fatherland in its annual Statement exhibition. Statement 2004 will feature of the present day work from Switzerland, with eight Swiss galleries presenting solo point out tos by emerging Swiss photographers. Exhibited artists will include John M Armeleder (at Susanna Kulli, Zurich); Erik Dettwiler (at Bernhard Bischoff. Thun); Thomas Flechther (at Blancpain Stepczynski, Geneva); Regis Golay (at Edward Mitterrand, Geneva); Claudio Moser (at Skopia, Geneva); Nathalie Rebholz (at Analix Forever, Geneva), Shirana Shahbazi (at Evergreene Geneva) and Jule Spinach (at Austellungsraum 25 Zurich.) The Paris Photo plan Room will feature screenings of contemporary Swiss videos from top to toe the fair including Dieter Roth Fischli & Weiss. Roman Signer, as well as Pipilotti Rist, Sylvie Fleury or Olaf Breuning. To completeness the Statement section. Paris Photo will ascend a special exhibition at the fair of highlights from the collection of the Winterthur Fotomuseum to reinforce the part that Swiss art and collections have played in the increase of modern and contemporary photography. explained in 1993 and located just outside Zurich, the Winterthur has quickly become the same of the world's major photogra-photography museums.

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