Camera shows in France?

[Trask]

When I lived in Belgium a few years ago, there seemed to be several photo shows scattered throughout the year, in Brussels or Liege or wherever.

I'm now living in Paris, and all anyone seems to know about is the Bievres show in June. Is anyone aware of any other camera shows around Paris? I'm willing to travel, like I used to go to Utrecht for the big November show, but I can't be going down to Marseille etc.

Thanks for any tips.

 

[Ian Grant]

It is the Month of Photography in Paris quite soon, over 40 exhibitions and there's usually a fringe festival as well

Just checked and it's 1st November - 1st December 2006. They have a website usually try a Google search.

You need 3 or 4 days to get around most of the exhibitions and the standard of the exhibitions usually superb, with work from around the world.

Ian

 

[Roger Hicks]

After Bievres, Rouen is the other big one (and more fun, for my money) though I've not been for several years. Otherwise there's a collectors' newspaper, weekly, as I recall, with a listing of all collectors' fairs in in. I imagine that Chasseur d'Images will also list what's going on.

Cheers,

R. (www.rogerandfrances.com)

 

[Ian Grant]

Not to be missed in 2006

Mois de la Photo (Photography month)

(14th edition)
Theme: photography and the printed page. Some 60 exhibitions in galleries, museums and cultural centres in Paris. Events calendar November 2006
Practical information
PARIS

www.mep-fr.org
Access for persons with limited mobility
Tourisme & Handicap label
(Maison Européenne de la Photographie - 4th, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson - 14th, Passage de Retz - 3rd, Maison de l'Architecture en Ile de France - 10th...)

 

[Roger Hicks]

The Mois de la Photo, several of which I have attended over the years, is pictures, not cameras -- rather different from Bievres.

For 'fine art' pictures (see relevant thread) there's also Arles. Very few camera stands though Leica tends to be there.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Ian Grant]

Actually the questioner says camera shows in the header and then both photo shows & camera shows in the body text, so he appears to mean photography as opposed to hardware.

I could be wrong but unless your a gear freak, or your in the trade you really wouldn't be going to many hardware shows around his part of Europe each year.

Ian

 

[maculadeplata]

a new one, now in its second year is MONTPELLIER on 15th october. for cameras and photo equipment.

 

[Trask]

Thanks for all your replies. While I do collect cameras, I also try to go to as many exhibitions as possible. I just attended the Friedlander opening at the Jeu de Paume yesterday (subject of another thread to come), and will soon hit the new Cartier-Bresson "Scrapbook" exhibition opening later this week.

I do remember that publication that lists all the used cameras, etc., but I'll be damned if I can find a copy for sale at any magazine shop. I may get luckier at the photo stores on Beaumarchais. Trask