#8 CURATED BY MARTIN PARR: BEST OF BRITISH
For L'INAPERÇU, Martin Parr, with his encyclopedic knowledge of photo books, has selected 50 works to highlight the creativity of British documentary photographers and the quality of their books. Bringing together familiar names like Chris Killip and emerging artists like Kavi Pujari, this selection will give the public a clearer idea of the multi-faceted talent to be found in the UK.
#7 CURATED BY ERIK KESSELS: TOO FUNNY FOR WORDS
These days, we're bathed in an endless stream of images. Everyone is a photographer, and any one of us can take a great picture. In the small world of pho-tobooks, artists often tend to take themselves a little too seriously, and humor is rare.
#6 CURATED BY CHRISTINE BARTHE: SUR/AMERICA
"On America, from America, about America...The south and its images, the south of its north, the south of which Alfredo Jaar declared in 1987 on a map of the USA "This is not America".
#5 CURATED BY CLÉMENT CHÉROUX: TOPP! THE ONE PERSON PHOTOBOOK
"There's a tradition of films and novels about a single character. In recent years, books of photographs in which all the images are devoted to a single person have also proliferated: The One Person Photobook".
#4 CURATED BY ALINE PUJO: AUTEURS DE VUES
" I invite you to discover a series of photobooks probing the many symptoms of today's world. An invitation that can be extended by a photographic stroll through the surrounding galleries, all in the Marais, where the authors of these books are represented. "
#3 CURATED BY JONAS CUÉNIN: IMAGES D'AMÉRIQUE
"America is my adopted home. It was in New York that I discovered photography, where it became my greatest passion, and where I met some extraordinary photographers. So I could only respond to L'INAPERÇU's invitation with a selection of photobooks tracing the history of photography in the United States, by American photographers. "
#2 CURATED BY VALÉRIE BELIN : WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS
"In response to L'INAPERÇU's invitation, I chose this theme of women photographers not as a subject in itself, but because I thought it was an opportunity to show the diversity and quality of work produced by artists who share with me the fact of being both women and photographers..."
#1 CURATED BY PATRICK REMY
"I like to pick and choose! I like to wander around a few selected bookshops, which mark out my Parisian strolls. I sometimes go to book fairs, but the abundance of publications quickly turns me off. Of course, there are the documentation books for the work I do with fashion and beauty brands, and then there are the others, all the others! "