In the case of the Cologne gallery Priska Pasquer, plans were already in the works for a booth of pictures by Nobuyoshi Araki, Daido Moriyama, Shomei Tomatsu and others before the earthquake and tsunami hit.
This is perhaps best illustrated by a booth whose exhibit was a pair of sensors that strapped to your feet, allowing you to "run" in virtual reality.
In 1987, Jose was at Art Basel, the annual collectors' fair in Switzerland, when he walked by the booth of a German dealer who was selling Warhol paintings.
At the Denver fossil show, in September, I stopped by the booth of Mike Triebold, a veteran Colorado hunter who has been working with the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists to find a way for academics and legitimate commercial hunters to collaborate.
Luca Bartolini, the chief executive of Unitekno, which manufactures top-priced steam vacuum cleaners in Umbria, Italy, wore an elegant charcoal gray suit as he sat disconsolately by himself in a booth in one of the two non-Chinese halls, in the equivalent of the attic of the trade fair, no buyers in sight.
"The common misconception is that we are trying to teach our kids to be farmers and rooting, tooting cowboys," said Greg Rystad, an agricultural teacher and F.F.A. faculty adviser from El Paso, Tex., who had stopped by the booth of the biotechnology firm Syngenta to observe a biochemist testing corn leaves for proteins that would repel worms.
I stopped by the booth of J & J Guns, of Robert, Louisiana.
Obama then stopped by the booth of the Lil' Dobbers, young farmers-to-be from the Limestone County, Texas 4-H.
These researchers solicited students in potentially every department by setting up a booth on the campus of a public university in a Western state.
A YOUNG woman stops by the window booth of the Blue Moon Diner, where Andre Braugher is sitting with cup of coffee one recent morning, smiles, hands him a postcard and walks off.
