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From photographs to archives: what for?

Culture · Monday, October 26 · 13:30 · Paris

18 boulevard Sérurier 75019 Paris

On the occasion of the Bicentennial of Photography, the Paris Archives present an exhibition showing the different uses of photographs (19th-21st centuries) they hold. In public archives files, they provide evidence, testimony and coexist with paper documents. They can also come from private-origin photographic fonds, produced for documentary, tourist or artistic purposes. This exhibition displayed in the Archives hall shows about thirty original documents with explanatory panels. During the Euro Days…