"A waste of breath" (After Yeats, a palimpsest) by Richard Learoyd

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Nov 13 – Nov 16, 2025
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Nov 13 – 16, 2025

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Above: Richard Learoyd, “A waste of breath” (After Yeats, a palimpsest), 2025 © Richard Learoyd
At the 2025 edition of Paris Photo, Pace will present a curated selection of works by over 20 artists, underscoring the breadth and history of the gallery’s program.

The presentation will feature a selection of photographs by seminal 20th-century figures—Diane Arbus, Irving Penn, and Robert Frank among them—alongside works by leading contemporary artists, including Richard Learoyd, RaMell Ross, and Kiki Smith. The booth will also debut never-before-seen images by Emmet Gowin, ahead of his solo exhibition at Pace’s 508 West 25th Street gallery in New York next year.

Lauren Panzo, Vice President at Pace, says:

"With a history steeped in the medium, Pace is thrilled to return to Paris Photo. The works on view—a compelling dialogue between new and old—not only highlight photography's incredible range but also affirm its crucial place within the broader history of modern and contemporary art."

Highlights on Pace’s booth include:

Recent works by Yto Barrada, who will represent France at the Venice Biennale in 2026 and is currently the subject of a major solo exhibition on view at the South London Gallery through January 11, 2026

Experimental and abstract photographs by Harry Callahan and Alfred Stieglitz, illustrating the innovative potential of the medium

Polaroids by Lucas Samaras, whose survey exhibition Master of the Uncanny is currently on view at The Intermission in Piraeus, Greece, presented in collaboration with Pace

A photograph by Gordon Parks taken backstage at the storied New York nightclub The Latin Quarter—formally The Cotton Club—in 1958

From the Bleacher Series: Charleston (Victorian house), 1952, (1990) by Robert Rauschenberg, a large-format black-and-white composition made from Polaroid photographs mounted on aluminum, in which the artist rephotographed and manipulated earlier imagery. This year marks the centenary of Rauschenberg’s birth on October 22, 1925

Portraits by Paolo Roversi, who was recently the subject of a focused retrospective, titled Along the Way, at Pace in New York

Dafne’s Song (2023) by Lucia Engstrom, hand-embroidered with silk thread and unspun mohair, highlighting the artist’s meticulous approach to material and texture

Works from Paul Graham’s series Verdigris / Ambergris, recently released in a pair of sibling books published by MACK, completing a twelve-year meditation on life’s transience and mortality

Vintage prints by Richard Avedon, Peter Hujar, and Weegee, among others

Landscape photography, including Richard Misrach’s Pyramid Lake (Last Light) (1997) and JoAnn Verburg’s Something New Near Bazzano (2000), that reflect the varied ways photographers have engaged with place

A photograph and a drawing by William Christenberry, both depicting the same Alabama church in 1981 and 1988, highlighting the artist's practice of revisiting subjects across mediums

Velka Lomnica (1966) from Josef Koudelka’s renowned Gypsies series, a selection of which are currently on view as part of a dedicated artist display at London’s Tate Modern