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Georges Vermard: The Glorious Years of a Photographer
Culture · Tuesday, October 27 · 10:00 · Lyon
30 Boulevard Vivier Merle 69003 Lyon
Georges Vermard was the first photographer from Lyon's daily press to enter the collections of the Lyon Municipal Library, where he occupies a singular place. Acquired in 1990, his fonds comprises nearly 15,000 photographs depicting the life and societal changes of Lyon from the 1950s to the 1970s.\n\nHaving died in February 2025, Georges Vermard is today honored through a major retrospective that reveals as much his journalistic eye as his sense of composition, his discreet humor and his deep humanism.\n\nOrganized around eight major themes (society of…)
