Exhibition on photography in Paris

Name: Exhibition on photography in Paris
Start: 2022-09-17T13:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Archives départementales et communales de Paris

A selection of varied photographic documents from the collections of the Paris Archives reveals the various facets of this almost bicentenary invention.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free entry

Le port Saint-Nicolas, plaque de verre positive rehaussée à la couleur, vers 1900. © Archives de Paris / Paul Géniaux / 7Fi 1.

Invented almost bicentenary, photography is now easily practiced by all. However, many were the trial and error to succeed in using light to capture a still image, first in black and white and then in colors. The Archives of Paris propose to discover this sustainable heritage through a varied selection of documents from their archives, representative of the different techniques and photographic supports and illustrating emblematic Parisian sites and personalities.

About the location

Archives départementales et communales de Paris

18 boulevard Sérurier 75019 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

For more than two hundred years, the Paris Archives has collected, inventoried, preserved, communicated and highlighted documents of historical interest, concerning Paris or the former Seine department, whether they were produced by the prefecture, by the services of the City of Paris, by the decentralized services of the State or by institutions with a public service mission. Since 1990, the Paris Archives has been housed in a building specially built by the architectural firm Henri and Bruno Gaudin. It consists of 27 original document storage stores mainly related to the history of the capital, the population and the Parisian urbanism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also has a reading room of 60 places for the consultation of the originals and 33 places for the consultation of the microfilmed and digitized archives.