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"At a time when jaded collectors worry that the increasingly hectic international art fair circuit is spinning out of control, along comes a show that reminds everyone just how rewarding\u2014and festive\u2014such exhibitions can be. Last week Los Angeles said bienvenue to the first American edition of Paris Photo, the 17-year-old French expo that unites top photography dealers from around the world.\n\nPinterestFacebookThe Amsterdam-based dealer Dirk K. Bakker Boeken\u2019s booth on Paramount\u2019s New York backlot. Photo: Randall Michelson/rmpix.com\n\n Installed across three soundstages within the historic Paramount Studios, the fair offered the added attraction of galleries and booksellers that set up shop in the storefronts of Paramount\u2019s New York backlot, an urban-scale movie set that re-creates the mean streets of Gotham.\n\nPinterestFacebookBelgian architectural photographer Filip Dujardin\u2019s D\u2019ville 004, 2012, on view at the Highlight Gallery booth. Photo: Filip Dujardin, courtesy of Highlight Gallery\n\nAlong with a wide variety of intriguing, lesser-known artists (Martina Sauter at Ambach &amp;amp; Rice and Filip Dujardin at Highlight Gallery), all the usual suspects were well represented. Andy Warhol Polaroids? Check. Hiroshi Sugimoto movie palaces? Check. William Eggleston streetscapes? Andreas Gursky panoramas? Helmut Newton nudies? Check, check, and check.\n\nPinterestFacebookHoneydew,2012, by New York\u2013based artist Marilyn Minter, on display at the Regen Projects booth. Photo courtesy of Regen Projects\n\nStandouts among the exhibitors included Regen Projects, with its all-abstraction-all-the-time installation (with works by Doug Aitken, Marilyn Minter, Catherine Opie, and James Welling) and London\u2019s Hamiltons gallery, which displayed seductive images by the likes of Irving Penn and Horst P. Horst in a residential setting conceived by British designer Jonathan Reed.\n\nPinterestFacebookThe Hamiltons gallery booth, designed by Jonathan Reed. Photo: Randall Michelson/rmpix.com\n\nL.A. writer and curator Douglas Fogle added another dimension to the proceedings with \u201CSound and Vision,\u201D a program that explored the intersections and cross-pollination of ideas between still and moving images. German artist Thomas Demand, American photographers Gregory Crewdson and Richard Misrach, and Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner were among the speakers.\n\nPinterestFacebookFashion executive Roberta Armani and actor Sean Penn, with fair director Julien Frydman (left), were among the A-list attendees at Paris Photo Los Angeles. Photo: Randall Michelson/rmpix.com\n\n Since Hollywood can\u2019t resist being Hollywood, the fair opened with a star-filled red-carpet gala. Among the assembled swells were Sean Penn, Roberta Armani, David Lynch, Emma Roberts, and Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick. And let\u2019s not forget Pamela Anderson and Soleil Moon Frye\u2014they were there, too. Paris Photo, welcome to L.A.\n\nPinterestFacebookFilmmaker David Lynch and photographer William Eggleston at the Gagosian Gallery booth. Photo: Randall Michelson/rmpix.com\n\nMore on archdigest.com:\n\n Discover this summer&amp;#39;s must-see outdoor art exhibtions and installations\n\n Check out 3 classic L.A. restaurants that have gotten a fresh new look"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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