Background

Pailet was born on June 30, 1950 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

Education

Pailet earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 1972 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting in 1973 from the Rice University.

Career

Pailet has been a freelance photographer since 1971. He installed his first photography exhibition at Rice University in 1972. Two years later he opened A Gallery for Fine Photography on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Also since 1974 he has been a gallery owner and photographer at the same gallery. This Gallery specializes in great photographic works from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. He was a photo instructor at Louisiana State University in 1977 and at Tulane University in 1978.

Pailet’s extensive collection at A Gallery for Fine Photography includes works by Ansel Adams, Yousuf Karsh, Andre Kertész, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Diane Arbus, Brett Weston, Edward Sheriff Curtis and others.

Achievements

• Pailet has amassed a catalogue of over 400,000 images, focused on capturing once-in-a-lifetime moments that include monographs on the 1976 American Freedom Train, The 1984 World’s Fair, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the United States.
  
  His photographs have been exhibited internationally and are included in museum collections at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and the Louisiana Arts and Science Center in Baton Rouge.

Works

More photos

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  • Worlds Fair, New Orleans 1987

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  • Sounds of Music, Second Line, New Orleans, Los Angeles

    2001

  • Nixon Loses Tapes, San Francisco, California

    1975

  • InElegant Cigarette, Lunn Gallery, Opening, Washington D. C

    1980

  • The Chat, Airport Phone Booth, New Orleans

    1989

  • Imagine it Clean, Convention Center Blvd. at Julia Street, New Orleans – Hurricane Katrina

    2005

Membership

Pailet is a founding member of AIPAD and the Association of International Photography Art Dealers.