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Paris Photo Fair: the best of contemporary photography

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We're bringing you behind the scenes footage as the 15th edition of Paris Photo Fair draws to a close at the Grand Palais. Its artistic director Julien Frydman explains this year's big changes and we find out about Edouard Levé's clever decontextualised images. Also not to be missed, the first French retrospective devoted to Diane Arbus.

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