Ready to use Exhibition

Gaston Paris, a fantastic eye

© Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
77 images

Overview of the exhibition

Gaston Paris (1903-1964), a photographer in full rehabilitation, is at the origin of an impressive body of work, as much by his powerful style as by the diversity of his subjects, from the festive intoxication of the thirties to the difficulties of the post-World War II era. Both a humanist photographer and a photo-reporter, Gaston Paris is above all an illustrative photographer who documents his time with humor and empathy. His black and white images seem to tell us that the world is a theater where multiple scenes are played out, of love, joy but also of labor, expectation and hope. Scenes of life intersect with scenes of shows or reconstructions. Portraits of anonymous people rub shoulders with those of celebrities, they merge with images of wax mannequins, whose disarticulated bodies are reminiscent of surrealism. His cinematographic training leads him to pose his models with frontal lighting, modeling the bodies and faces. There is something sculptural in Gaston Paris' photography with forms monumentalized by light and sublimated volumes. His urban and industrial landscapes, always very graphic, are composed to perfection in the square frame of the Releliflex. Pillar and unique salaried photographer of the magazine VU, member of the Rectangle with Emmanuel Sayer, Pierre Jaton, his productions will aggregate the pages of many magazines illustrated very fashionable at the time. After his death, the Roger-Viollet agency bought his production. Presented at the Roger-Viollet Gallery from January 20 to April 23, 2022

Technical specifications

Number of prints
77
Type of prints
Modern on Hahnemühle baryta paper 315g
Format
30 x 40 cm
Passe-partout
No
Type of framework
Wenge Alpha Nielsen frame
Packaging
Transport case
Number of packages
-
Total weight
-
Insurance value
-

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Roger-Viollet | 959452 | Women at a fun fair. France, circa 1935. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13648-11 DG
Women at a fun fair. France, circa 1935.
Roger-Viollet | 810803 | Circus : trapeze artists. France, circa 1935. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13645-6 DG
Circus : trapeze artists. France, circa 1935.
Roger-Viollet | 629484 | Couple. Paris, circa 1950. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
5014-6 DG
Couple. Paris, circa 1950.
Roger-Viollet | 231556 | Miss Dora, contortionist. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
5028-6 DG
Miss Dora, contortionist.
Roger-Viollet | 825301 | Nightmare. Photograph by Gaston Paris for  La Clef des Songes . France, circa 1950. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
14221-12 DG
Nightmare. Photograph by Gaston Paris for "La Clef des Songes". France, circa 1950.
Roger-Viollet | 154002 | Worker in a railway workshop, working on the mechanism of a steam locomotive. France, circa 1945. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
99800-5 DG
Worker in a railway workshop, working on the mechanism of a steam locomotive. France, circa 1945.
Roger-Viollet | 1007726 | Aerial view of the Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre. Paris (18th Arr.), 1936. Photograph by Gaston Paris (1903-1964). Historical Library of the City of Paris. | © Gaston Paris / BHVP / Roger-Viollet
76307-9 DG
Aerial view of the Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre. Paris (18th Arr.), 1936. Photograph by Gaston Paris [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1096208 | Austerlitz Viaduct. Paris, around 1935. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
112362-5 DG
Austerlitz Viaduct. Paris, around 1935.
Roger-Viollet | 614180 | Factory chimney. Paris, around 1935. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
86932-3 DG
Factory chimney. Paris, around 1935.
Roger-Viollet | 689853 | The Eiffel Tower. Paris (7th arrondissement), circa 1945. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
99805-22 DG
The Eiffel Tower. Paris (7th arrondissement), circa 1945.
Roger-Viollet | 925477 | Worker on a construction site. France, 1938. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
3992-7 DG
Worker on a construction site. France, 1938.
Roger-Viollet | 1372560 | The Chalais-Meudon aerodynamic wind tunnel, built from 1932 to 1934 by the engineer Lepresle. Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine), 1936. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
203744-2 DG
The Chalais-Meudon aerodynamic wind tunnel, built from 1932 to 1934 by the engineer Lepresle. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1084869 | Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral. Paris (4th arrondissement). Photograph by Gaston Paris (1903-1964). Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris. | © Gaston Paris / BHVP / Roger-Viollet
76273-26 DG
Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral. Paris (4th arrondissement). Photograph by Gaston Paris (1903-1964). [...]
Roger-Viollet | 632943 | The Chalais-Meudon aerodynamic wind tunnel, built from 1932 to 1934 by the engineer Lepresle. Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine), 1936. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
86921-22 DG
The Chalais-Meudon aerodynamic wind tunnel, built from 1932 to 1934 by the engineer Lepresle. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 196142 | Circus. Trapeez artists. France, circa 1935. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
86894-18 DG
Circus. Trapeez artists. France, circa 1935.
Roger-Viollet | 282287 | Ballet at the Opera Garnier. Paris, circa 1937-1938. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13702-5 DG
Ballet at the Opera Garnier. Paris, circa 1937-1938.
Roger-Viollet | 937018 | Closing of a café. Paris, circa 1935. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
1160-1 DG
Closing of a café. Paris, circa 1935.
Roger-Viollet | 389776 | Sailors on land. France, circa 1935. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13538-11 DG
Sailors on land. France, circa 1935.
Roger-Viollet | 381885 | Policeman caught in a storm. Paris, circa 1940. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13655-13 DG
Policeman caught in a storm. Paris, circa 1940.
Roger-Viollet | 864694 | Benedictine monk in a corridor of the abbey. Saint-Wandrille (France). | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
5060-4 DG
Benedictine monk in a corridor of the abbey. Saint-Wandrille (France).
Roger-Viollet | 484731 | Wings of the Opéra Garnier. Paris, circa 1937-1938. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13698-4 DG
Wings of the Opéra Garnier. Paris, circa 1937-1938.
Roger-Viollet | 807197 | Boxing match. France, circa 1937-1938. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13614-16 DG
Boxing match. France, circa 1937-1938.
Roger-Viollet | 513547 | Circus. Lasso by Sylvie Carson. France, circa 1935. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
86900-26 DG
Circus. Lasso by Sylvie Carson. France, circa 1935.
Roger-Viollet | 193779 | Circus. Blade show. France, circa 1935. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
86899-31 DG
Circus. Blade show. France, circa 1935.
Roger-Viollet | 729343 | Circus. Blade show. France, circa 1935. Photograph by Gaston Paris (1903-1964). | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
86900-7 DG
Circus. Blade show. France, circa 1935. Photograph by Gaston Paris (1903-1964).
Roger-Viollet | 1050080 | Nude dancers with a snake. Paris, circa 1937-1939. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13690-2 DG
Nude dancers with a snake. Paris, circa 1937-1939.
Roger-Viollet | 560645 | Circus.  Les Clerans , French trapeze duo, composed of Charlie Gérardin (aerialist) and Stéphane Hégédus (carrier). France, around 1936. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13643-11 DG
Circus. "Les Clerans", French trapeze duo, composed of Charlie Gérardin (aerialist) and Stéphane [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1081214 | Dressing room of the Folies Bergère. Paris, 1935. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
20295-1 DG
Dressing room of the Folies Bergère. Paris, 1935.
Roger-Viollet | 392811 | Paris Opera ballet school. Students of Albert Aveline's class. Paris, circa 1937-1938. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
75286-8 DG
Paris Opera ballet school. Students of Albert Aveline's class. Paris, circa 1937-1938.
Roger-Viollet | 533068 | The Folies Bergère dressing rooms. Paris, 1935. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
20251-14 DG
The Folies Bergère dressing rooms. Paris, 1935.
Roger-Viollet | 401768 | Berlin wizard. Man smoking the pipe and holding a skull. Photograph by Gaston Paris (1903-1964). Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris. | © Gaston Paris / BHVP / Roger-Viollet
76280-22 DG
Berlin wizard. Man smoking the pipe and holding a skull. Photograph by Gaston Paris (1903-1964). [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1031390 | Study of a nude. France, circa 1937-1939. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13690-7 DG
Study of a nude. France, circa 1937-1939.
Roger-Viollet | 1105711 | Circus artist. Fairground artist. France, around 1935. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
112368-22 DG
Circus artist. Fairground artist. France, around 1935.
Roger-Viollet | 842519 | Exhibition on surrealism. Model by Sonia Mossé (1917-1943). Galerie des Beaux-Arts de Georges Wildenstein, 140 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré. Paris (8th arrondissement), January 1938. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13039-11 DG
Exhibition on surrealism. Model by Sonia Mossé (1917-1943). Galerie des Beaux-Arts de Georges [...]
Roger-Viollet | 183611 | The wax figure of Violette Nozières (1915-1966), a French criminal, is dismantled and replaced by that of Serge Alexandre Stavisky (1888-1934). Musée Grévin, Paris (9th district), circa 1934. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
12863-5 DG
The wax figure of Violette Nozières (1915-1966), a French criminal, is dismantled and replaced by [...]
Roger-Viollet | 550662 | Wax mannequin. Dupuytren Museum, rue de l'Ecole-de-Médecine. Paris (VIth district), around 1930. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13623-2 DG
Wax mannequin. Dupuytren Museum, rue de l'Ecole-de-Médecine. Paris (VIth district), around 1930.
Roger-Viollet | 1015543 | Exhibition of surrealism. Mannequin by Kurt Seligmann. Galerie des Beaux-Arts of Georges Wildenstein, 140, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré. Paris (8th district), January 1938. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
665-2 DG
Exhibition of surrealism. Mannequin by Kurt Seligmann. Galerie des Beaux-Arts of Georges [...]
Roger-Viollet | 968860 | Communicant girl. France, circa 1950. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
99816-17 DG
Communicant girl. France, circa 1950.
Roger-Viollet | 599666 | Surrealism exhibition. Dummy by Maurice Henry. Paris (8th arrondissement), Galerie des Beaux-Arts, 140 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, January 1938. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
667-4 DG
Surrealism exhibition. Dummy by Maurice Henry. Paris (8th arrondissement), Galerie des Beaux-Arts, [...]
Roger-Viollet | 693380 | Re-enactment of a crime scene. Composition by Gaston Paris. France, circa 1950. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
14391-3 DG
Re-enactment of a crime scene. Composition by Gaston Paris. France, circa 1950.
Roger-Viollet | 447746 | Nightmare. France, circa 1950. Photograph by Gaston Paris for  La Clef des Songes . | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
14221-10 DG
Nightmare. France, circa 1950. Photograph by Gaston Paris for "La Clef des Songes".
Roger-Viollet | 768478 | Young man. France, circa 1935. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
14244-7 DG
Young man. France, circa 1935.
Roger-Viollet | 685812 | Reconstruction of a brawl scene. France, circa 1950. Photograph by Gaston Paris. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
14258-15 DG
Reconstruction of a brawl scene. France, circa 1950. Photograph by Gaston Paris.
Roger-Viollet | 1063960 | Re-enactment of a crime scene. Composition by Gaston Paris. France, circa 1950. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
14227-12 DG
Re-enactment of a crime scene. Composition by Gaston Paris. France, circa 1950.
Roger-Viollet | 212491 | Re-enactment of a murder. Composition by Gaston Paris for  La Clef des Songes , circa 1950. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13690-12 DG
Re-enactment of a murder. Composition by Gaston Paris for "La Clef des Songes", circa 1950.
Roger-Viollet | 1030845 | Circus : clowns. France, circa 1935. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13643-7 DG
Circus : clowns. France, circa 1935.
Roger-Viollet | 1036158 | Sculpted bust of Greta Garbo (1905-1990), Swedish actress, about to be sent in the United States. Paris (9th arrondissement), Grévin Wax Museum, circa 1950. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
99797-20 DG
Sculpted bust of Greta Garbo (1905-1990), Swedish actress, about to be sent in the United States. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 175363 | Noël-Noël (1897-1989), French actor and director. Paris, Théâtre de l'A.B.C., circa 1950. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
14502-1 DG
Noël-Noël (1897-1989), French actor and director. Paris, Théâtre de l'A.B.C., circa 1950.
Roger-Viollet | 614564 | Grévin museum. Wax figure of Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born physicist and theoretician. Paris (9th arrondissement), circa 1930. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
99796-17 DG
Grévin museum. Wax figure of Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born physicist and theoretician. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 619811 |  Volpone  by Jules Romains, after Ben Jonson. Charles Dullin. Paris, Théâtre de l'Atelier, September 1937. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
81908-28 DG
"Volpone" by Jules Romains, after Ben Jonson. Charles Dullin. Paris, Théâtre de l'Atelier, [...]
Roger-Viollet | 979516 | Home of André Dignimont (1891-1965), French painter. Paris, circa 1940. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
86908-1 DG
Home of André Dignimont (1891-1965), French painter. Paris, circa 1940.
Roger-Viollet | 568567 | Edith Piaf (1915-1963), French singer. 1940. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13503-1 DG
Edith Piaf (1915-1963), French singer. 1940.
Roger-Viollet | 854434 | Henri Salvador (1917-2008), French singer-songwriter. France, circa 1950. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
14746-15 DG
Henri Salvador (1917-2008), French singer-songwriter. France, circa 1950.
Roger-Viollet | 644002 | Brigitte Bardot (born in 1934), French actress. France, circa 1954-1955. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13881-13 DG
Brigitte Bardot (born in 1934), French actress. France, circa 1954-1955.
Roger-Viollet | 867210 | Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977), French director. Paris, circa 1955. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
6030-6 DG
Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977), French director. Paris, circa 1955.
Roger-Viollet | 946051 | Line Renaud (born in 1928), French singer and actress, at the Jonchère. Rueil-Malmaison (France), circa 1955. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
82571-18 DG
Line Renaud (born in 1928), French singer and actress, at the Jonchère. Rueil-Malmaison (France), [...]
Roger-Viollet | 299128 | Kiki de Montparnasse (1901-1953), French model. Paris, around 1935. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
14395-10 DG
Kiki de Montparnasse (1901-1953), French model. Paris, around 1935.
Roger-Viollet | 891866 |  La Créole , operetta by Jacques Offenbach. Josephine Baker. Paris, Théâtre Marigny, December 1934. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
9059-10 DG
"La Créole", operetta by Jacques Offenbach. Josephine Baker. Paris, Théâtre Marigny, December 1934.
Roger-Viollet | 1022038 | Striptease:  the robot . France, circa 1937. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
99817-26 DG
Striptease: "the robot". France, circa 1937.
Roger-Viollet | 1001547 | Royflex advertisement. Posed by Gaston Paris (1903-1964), French photographer. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
71711-7 DG
Royflex advertisement. Posed by Gaston Paris (1903-1964), French photographer.
Roger-Viollet | 922939 | Gaston Paris (1903-1964), French photographer. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
15317-1 DG
Gaston Paris (1903-1964), French photographer.
Roger-Viollet | 767433 | Mirror effect on a sphere. Photograph by Gaston Paris. France, circa 1935. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
14221-3 DG
Mirror effect on a sphere. Photograph by Gaston Paris. France, circa 1935.
Roger-Viollet | 656143 | Gaston Paris (1903-1964), French photographer, taking a picture of the distorted reflection of a roundabout in a spherical mirror. France, circa 1937. Photograph by Gaston Paris (1903-1964). | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
9218-2 DG
Gaston Paris (1903-1964), French photographer, taking a picture of the distorted reflection of a [...]
Roger-Viollet | 512000 | Anne Doat (born in 1936), French actress, and Gaston Paris (1903-1964), French photographer, reflected in a mirror under the Eiffel Tower. Paris (7th arrondissement), circa 1960. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
14098-2 DG
Anne Doat (born in 1936), French actress, and Gaston Paris (1903-1964), French photographer, [...]
Roger-Viollet | 627045 | Reportag on Albert Préjean (1894-1979), French actor. The Eiffel Tower. Paris (7th arrondissement), circa 1955. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
82567-23 DG
Reportag on Albert Préjean (1894-1979), French actor. The Eiffel Tower. Paris (7th arrondissement), [...]
Roger-Viollet | 449044 | Weaving workroom at the Manufacture des Gobelins. Paris, circa 1935. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13519-13 DG
Weaving workroom at the Manufacture des Gobelins. Paris, circa 1935.
Roger-Viollet | 805237 | Variety show at the Folies-Bergère. Paris (9th arrondissement), circa 1935. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13688-7 DG
Variety show at the Folies-Bergère. Paris (9th arrondissement), circa 1935.
Roger-Viollet | 372751 | Circus. Lora Rode, the horsewoman. France, circa 1937-1939. Photograph by Gaston Paris (1903-1964). | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
86896-3 DG
Circus. Lora Rode, the horsewoman. France, circa 1937-1939. Photograph by Gaston Paris (1903-1964).
Roger-Viollet | 158821 | Josephine Baker (1906-1975), American variety artist. Paris. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13880-2 DG
Josephine Baker (1906-1975), American variety artist. Paris.
Roger-Viollet | 837316 | Children in a suburb of Paris. France, 1936. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13660-11 DG
Children in a suburb of Paris. France, 1936.
Roger-Viollet | 772559 | Poor children in a hovel in the suburbs of Paris, in the 1950's. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
2247-2 DG
Poor children in a hovel in the suburbs of Paris, in the 1950's.
Roger-Viollet | 1086136 | Child in a suburb of Paris. France, 1936. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13660-9 DG
Child in a suburb of Paris. France, 1936.
Roger-Viollet | 303884 | Young boys in the ruins of West Berlin. Germany, after 1945. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
3208-13 DG
Young boys in the ruins of West Berlin. Germany, after 1945.
Roger-Viollet | 826086 | Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Exodus of the Republicans in France, February 1939. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
3570-6 DG
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Exodus of the Republicans in France, February 1939.
Roger-Viollet | 553382 | Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Exodus. France, February 1939. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
8342-7 DG
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Exodus. France, February 1939.
Roger-Viollet | 327616 | Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Civil refugees arriving in France, February 1939. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
13599-17 DG
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Civil refugees arriving in France, February 1939.
Roger-Viollet | 337127 | Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Exodus. France, February 1939. | © Gaston Paris / Roger-Viollet
8342-6 DG
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Exodus. France, February 1939.