Steely eyes and bloody hands. Shirin Neshat in the 11/20 Photography auction at Auctionata.

The evocative/grotesque form of a dried squid. Hollis Frampton at Room East.

The childlike aura of butterfly cutouts and worn drapery. David Gilbert at Klaus von Nichtssagend.

Paris turned upside down. Abelardo Morell in the 11/23 Photographs action at Doyle.

The elegance of 1930s floral rigor. Albert Renger-Patzsch at the 11/20 Photographica auction at WestLicht.

Exuberantly tossing sticks in the air. Early Andy Goldsworthy at Galerie Lelong.

The wall-filling Pola Eros. Nobuyoshi Araki in the PRISMES section of Paris Photo.

A recreation of Farewell Photography (1972). Daido Moriyama in the PRISMES section of Paris Photo.

Modifying architectural space to create trompe l’oeil geometric patterns. Georges Rousse at Sous Les Etoiles Gallery.

A shifting mix of palms, checkerboards, aluminum, and tilted framing. Joseph Desler Costa at Foley Gallery.

A paired-image feminist version of the Pirelli calendar. Andrea Mary Marshall at Garis & Hahn.

Multiple exposure head in a refrigerator. Brigid Berlin at Invisible-Exports.

The tender embrace of a baby raccoon. Jesse Burke at ClampArt.

Mimicking the whorls of digital distortion. Sarah Sieradzki in the Surface Tension group show at Garis & Hahn.

Nude crosshatched into abstraction. Brassaï in the 11/13 Photographs Signature Auction at Heritage.

A tangled montage of fetish eroticism. Pierre Molinier, in a single artist auction 11/13 at Artcurial.

Replicating street art text in tattoo ink. Addam Yekutieli at Catinca Tabacaru.

Araki Polaroids on the floor of a fake massage parlor. Paired with Rudolf Schwarzkogler in Salon de Mass-age at Shin Gallery.

Men and their handguns. Hunter Barnes at Milk Gallery.

Stylized stagings on the 1940s Nantucket shore. PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret French) at Gitterman.