19/4/2012
Photography book Festival
Le Bal, Paris
A laboratory of reflection on photobook nowadays' stake, a transforming territory, but also an essential encounter platform between the editors, the designers, the photographers, the critics and the collectors.
Since its first edition in 2008 the photobook festival has established itself as the international event around photobook editions.
The last decade has seen the photobook conquer its just place in the photography world, revealing bit by bit an influence and filiation network between photographers. The publications «books on books» bring out another political, social and cultural history of photography.
How to conceive, produce and spread a photobook today ?
The festival has become a laboratory of reflection on photobook nowadays’ stake, a transforming territory, but also an essential encounter platform between the public, the editors, the graphic designers, the photographers, the critics and the collectors.
Several upbeats will regulate this fifth edition : an exhibition of the best books of the year, selectioned by 35 world experts, the winner of the dummy award, which reward the more successful model; a book market, which group together ten young international editors; twelve conferences with photographers, artists, editors from all over the world.
Le Bal
6, Impasse de la Defense - Paris
Opening hours
Wednesday – Friday, noon – 8 PM
Saturday, 11 AM – 8 PM Sunday, 11 AM – 7 PM Late night on Thursday until 10 PM
Admission fee
Full rate €5.00 — Concessions €4.00