In order for guests to really get a grasp of the diversity and individuality that defines art books from France, the TABF venue will be featuring a number of highly-specialized “book stores' modeled after the bouquinistes in Paris. Bouquiniste refers to the street stalls lining Paris’s streets selling secondhand books, posters, postcards, and other printed matters – the stalls sitting along the banks of the Seine is one of Paris’s most quintessential sights. Here the bouquinistes come to life at the TABF, where experts in art, illustration/comics, photography, street art, picture books, food, and other various genres come together to curate their own “book stores” in the fair venue.
＜Curator＞
Photography: Emilie Lauriola（sasori books)
Emilie Lauriola is the former head of LE BAL Books, the bookshop of photography institution LE BAL in Paris and the co-founder and programmer of the Rolling Paper Book Fair. She started Sasori Books in 2021, focusing on hard-to-find ephemera, art and photography books. In 2021, she created Sasori Bar, an ephemeral bar project for photographers and publishers to hang out at during the photography festival PhotoSaintGermain in Paris. She also collaborated and wrote for Camera Austria and I-D Magazine.
Photo: Christopher de Béthune.
Illustration & Comic: Séverine Bascouert, Sammy Stein （artst, LAGON）
Séverine Bascouert is a silkscreenprinter artist and Sammy Stein is an artist and cartoonist. They both live in Paris, France. For ten years now, their work as a duo has been a research in printing and bookmaking. Their comics, booklets, magazines, printed ceramics and posters are self-published or published by other publishing houses. With the magazine LAGON, they diffuse the work of international artists. For the TABF, they will specially present a selection of books and zines by French artists and young avant-garde cartonnists.
Street: Thibault Choay（CLASSIC）
Vintage: Marc Verrecchia "Marco"（Bouquinistes）
Born in 1962, works as a bouquiniste on Quai de l'Hotel de Ville in Paris since 2000. He is specialized in Art books.
Mode: BIEF