Im Kurtze Erscheint Anonyme Skulpturen                                                                 Poster for the publication of Anonyme Skulpturen, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1970

Photographic duo Bernd and Hilla Becher created one of the most respected bodies of work in modern photography. An exhibition at Paris Photo this week highlights their career with photographs, books and printed ephemera.

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Linge qui sèche [Drying clothes] , 2012 

Laurent Chéhère’s “Flying Houses” project is at once a charming, imaginative take on Paris and a wistful vision of dreams deferred.

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To prepare for his cover sitting with Marion Cotillard for TIME Style&Design’s fall issue, photographer Peter Hapak hit the archives, collecting pictures of Paris and Parisian fashion during the 1930s, including the work of famed French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue. 

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Paolo Roversi

Guinevere behind the table, Paris, 2004

Few publishers in the history of photography have had as lengthy a track record of producing books that are now considered the medium’s landmarks as Robert Delpire, who is honored in a tribute exhibition in New York City. See more here.

France

This photograph, believe it or not, was taken near Shanghai.

Spanish photographer Pablo Conejo traveled to China to document the rapid development of a country full of contradictions. In Shanghai he found himself immersed in a futuristic urban landscape. See more here.

Francois Mori—AP

March 20, 2012. Suspended by wires, Chinese artist Li Wei performs in the sky at La Villette in Paris.

From Aung San Suu Kyi’s election campaign and the mourning of the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo to protests for Trayvon Martin and the celebration of the Afghan New Year, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week. See more here.

Fête du Trône, 1925.

Drawing from its expansive collection of Eugène Atget’s work, the Museum of Modern Art in New York is exhibiting more than 100 of the photographer’s images, with a show title inspired by the artist himself. See more here.

Photographer Christer Strömholm documents the nightlife of Pigalle’s transsexual prostitutes in the republishing of his 1986 book, Les Amies de Place Blanche. See more here.