Explore Paris Photo L.A., Art Fair to the Stars

BMW, one of the fair’s sponsors, set up a booth featuring the work of French duo Elise Mazac and Robert Drowilal, better known as Mazaccio & Drowilal, at the entrance of Stage 14. This installation, titled Don’t Be Evil, is a dark send-up of Silicon Valley, complete with emoji captions and a hamster cage that represent the work culture at Google. “It was full of fun at work, but at the same time, he had no life outside the box,” Drowilal said about a friend who worked at the tech giant.

Drew Barrymore and her art-adviser husband Will Kopelman, who had their kids in tow, get schooled on the works at a booth that was showing works brought by In the Gallery, a very confusingly named gallery based in Copenhagen.

We found actress Jamie Lee Curtis inside the California Unedited! space. “You take photos with iPhones?” she asked. Look, Jamie, it’s a photo fair, and this is the best we've got! “Let’s go take one next to my twin,” she said. Her “twin” was the subject of this portrait by 19th-century photographer R.J. Arnold.

Over at Garis & Hahn’s booth was a series of works by the New York–based French artist Julien Levy. “He’s lived in multiple cities around the world, and he’s really trying to capture the loneliness and isolation one can feel in these populated urban sprawls and environments,” said gallerist Sophie Hahn.

The VIP Lounge — which was set in front of a wall covered with some spectacularly cheesy fake graffiti — was pretty empty when the fair first opened. That would change later on into the night. People just could not get enough of the fake graffiti in the VIP lounge.

Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve presented a solo show by the artist and fashion photographer Juergen Teller. You've seen his work in Marc Jacobs ads — just not ones involving Miley Cyrus. This photograph shows Teller’s New York gallerist, David Maupin, with his partner, W editor Stefano Tonchi, and their twins.

“They continuously have the best booth,” said Frieze editor Jonathan Griffith at Paule Anglim Gallery’s booth, which showed artists John Beech and Bruce Conner.

Jim Steffens’s Kodachrome slides had been sitting in his closet until a few years ago, when his daughter started scanning and posting the ’60s and ’70s counterculture photos on an Instagram account she named @thefamilyacid. Since then, the images have appeared in The New Yorker, Time, and the New York Times. “This is 40 years ago,” said Steffens of this particular picture. “This is the day I met my wife at the Albion People’s Fair in Mendocino on an acid trip in a pygmy forest under a total eclipse of the moon. And we’ve been together since that day.”

We went on to the next one. “Drew Barrymore was in here yesterday, and that’s my table in Berkeley in 1973,” said Steffens. “Drew Barrymore looks at it and says, ‘Looks like my childhood.’” Drew Barrymore had quite the preteen lifestyle, if you recall.