PARIS EN COULEURS, des Frères Lumière à Martin Parr
At the Hotel de Ville, until March 31, 2008
Paris loves photographs and photographers and there are usually a couple of photographic exhibitions on at any one time. Here is one to sample.
The classic photos of Paris are black-and-white images by Doisneau, Boubat and other “humanist” photographers. But the city has also been captured in color since early autochromes (the first industrial procedure in photographic color) by the Lumière brothers in 1907. This expo celebrates the centenary of the commercialization of autochrome by showing the public 300 color photos of the capital taken between 2007 and today by many great photographers. The expo details in an artistic way the changes in the city in the last century—murals, placards, decorations, urban housing, transport etc.
The expo is in 3 parts:
The first part covers 1907-1930, with many pictures from the archives, including short color films, and features Albert Kahn,
The second, 1930-1960, especially features Gisèle Freund, and images of every day life during the occupation and liberation of Paris.
The final section covers the period 1960-present, and features many artists, including Robert Capa, Sarah Moon, William Klein, Bruno Barbey, Philippe Ramette and Martin Parr.
Hôtel de Ville, Salle Saint-Jean. 5 rue Lobau (4th)
Free. Daily 10am-7pm, except Sundays and holidays. Through Mar 31. Métro: Hôtel de Ville Tel: 01.42.76.40.40
http://www.paris.fr/portail/Culture/Portal.lut?page=multimedialist&page_id=102&id=5 (to see a photo gallery)
More Photographic Stuff:
—Maison européenne de la photographie, www.mep-fr.org
—Watch for Mois de Photo, which now extends way more than a month in the fall, usually September-December.
—Check my earlier entry, in November 2007, on the free outdoor photo expo along the Quai Branley (Photographers View the World)
