Paris Photo 2011 – in pictures

No Place Like Home by Philip Kwame Apagya. 'African photography was one of the main themes of this year's fair, and two group shows, one contemporary, one historical, attested to the continuing vibrancy of African image makers'
Photograph: Philip Kwame ApagyaFifty One Fine Art Photography

David Akore, Agbogbloshie Market, Accra, Ghana by Pieter Hugo. 'Hugo's photographs were from his most recent series, Permanent Error, which focuses on the people and landscape of a vast dump for obsolete computer technology in a slum in Ghana' Photograph: Pieter Hugo/Courtesy of Stevenon and Yossi Milo

Nuit de Noël by Malick Sidibé. 'Sidibe's great portraits of youth culture in Mali in the 1970s vied for attention alongside the work of the great studio portraitist Seydou Kieta' Photograph: Malick Sidibé/Galerie du jour Agnés

Miss D'vine by Zanele Muholi. 'A series of Muholi's portraits of Ms D'Vine, a gay man who works as a drag queen, were immediately striking and intelligently provocative'
Photograph: Zanele Muholi

Woman at a counter smoking, N.Y.C by Diane Arbus. 'Like a less vulgar, more well-mannered version of the Frieze Art Fair, Paris Photo is first and foremost a giant marketplace that showcases the big hitters and the up-and-coming stars of the global art-photography market' Photograph: Diane Arbus/Fraenkel Gallery

Drum Cover Girl Erlin Ibreck by James Barnor. 'Some 135 exhibitors from 23 countries competed to show off their wares'
Photograph: James Barnor/Baudoin Lebon

Jean Cocteau by Bernice Abbott. 'This newly discovered portrait of Cocteau pointing a gun at the viewer was displayed side by side with her more familiar but no less dramatic portraits of an uncomfortable James Joyce' Photograph: Bernice Abbott/Howard Greenberg Gallery

Broken Manual by Alec Soth. 'Big prints [like this from Alec Soth] are where it's at right now in terms of the market for contemporary photography, a trend that began with Jeff Wall a decade or more ago and for better or worse continues apace today' Photograph: Alec Soth

Near Greenwood, Mississippi by William Eggleston. 'The biggest queue of the week was for Eggleston's book-signing, in which the entire first print run of Chromes, his three-book boxed retrospective, sold out despite its prohibitive price tag of £220' Photograph: William Eggleston/Rose Gallery

End of An Age by Paul Graham. 'Graham's book, A Shimmer of Possibility (a 12-volume retrospective from Steidl), deservedly won the Paris Photobook Prize' Photograph: Paul Graham/Pace/MacGill Gallery

From "Tokyo" by Daido Moriyama. 'Taken from his 1972's series, Farewell Photography, Moriyama's raft of images on display at Paris Photo pushed his grainy, impression signature as far as it could go, and asked big questions of the viewer about meaning and narrative. A taster, then, for the big Moriyama and William Klein show at Tate Modern next year' Photograph: Daido Moriyama/Toluca Editions