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50 years since the fall of Saigon on 30 April 2025 by Françoise Demulder
52366-20 © Succession Demulder / Françoise Demulder / Roger-Viollet

50 years since the fall of Saigon on 30 April 2025 by Françoise Demulder
The forger Fernand Legros

The forger Fernand Legros
1st women's vote in April 1945

1st women's vote in April 1945
Death of Paul-Loup Sulitzer

Death of Paul-Loup Sulitzer
Death of Aga Khan, by Jean Marquis

Death of Aga Khan, by Jean Marquis
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<span style="font-size:80%">Ernest & Henri Roger <br />Brothers, Inventors, Photographers</span>
© Henri Roger / Roger-Viollet

From March 6 to May au 31, 2025

Ernest & Henri Roger
Brothers, Inventors, Photographers

Gallery Roger-Viollet presents the images by Henri Roger (1869-1946) and his elder brother Ernest (1864-1943), two brilliant minds who left their mark on both science and photography.
Both document their scientific experiments, as well as their bourgeois family life at the crossroads of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Henri excelled in photographic trickery, producing images in which he and his brother appeared in multiple copies, creating surreal, poetic sketches.
Henri was also the father of Hélène Roger-Viollet, founder of the eponymous photographic agency in 1938.

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The Roger-Viollet Gallery welcomes you from Tuesday to Saturday
from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm. Free admission.

6 rue de Seine 75006 Paris
Tél. + 33 1 55 42 89 09 -

Spotlight

  • Les Halles de Paris to mark the 220th anniversary of Victor Baltard's birth in 2025

    Les Halles de Paris to mark the 220th anniversary of Victor Baltard's birth in 2025

  • 40th anniversary of the death of Hélène Roger-Viollet on 27 January 2025

    40th anniversary of the death of Hélène Roger-Viollet on 27 January 2025

  • Brigitte Bardot

    Brigitte Bardot

  • 2025, centenary of Pierre Boulez's birth

    2025, centenary of Pierre Boulez's birth

  • Montessori pedagogy

    Montessori pedagogy

  • 50 years ago Marcel Pagnol passed away

    50 years ago Marcel Pagnol passed away

  • Holidays by Janine Niepce

    Holidays by Janine Niepce

  • The pan

    The pan

  • News pictures France-Soir and of 1944-1945

    News pictures France-Soir and of 1944-1945

  • 100 years 24 hours of Le Mans

    100 years 24 hours of Le Mans

  • The aerostat around 1900

    The aerostat around 1900

  • Retirement home for lyric artists by Gaston Paris

    Retirement home for lyric artists by Gaston Paris

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Exhibition rentals
22-4 © Boris Lipnitzki / Studio Lipnitzki / Roger-Viollet

Exhibitions

Exhibition rentals

For your cultural events, we propose a choice of turnkey exhibitions, or to explore together our exceptional photographic archives for the production of made-to-measure projects.

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Our Photographers

  • Georges Azenstarck

    Georges Azenstarck

    Born in 1934, the committed photo-reporter Georges Azenstarck worked for the French newspaper « L'Humanité » from 1956 to 1968, and for the trade union press. He photographed picket lines, cities, [...]

  • Georges Kelaïditès

    Georges Kelaïditès

    Born in 1932, Georges Kelaïditès started his career as photo assistant in the early 1950’s. He bought his first SLR camera in 1955 and the very same year sold his first photograph to the magazine [...]

  • André Perlstein

    André Perlstein

    André Perlstein (1942-). He passed his School Certificate at the age of 14 and worked as a mason, carpenter, apprentice sailor on oil tankers, courier... In 1958, he joined the air force and became [...]

  • Henri Roger

    Henri Roger

    Henri Roger was born in 1869. He took his first photograph at the age of eleven. When he was twenty, and a young engineer, he became one of the precursors of photographic special effects. His first [...]

  • Gilberto Ante

    Gilberto Ante

    In 1959 Che Guevara gave Gilberto Ante (1925-1991) his first 35mm camera, an Exakta. From that time on, he photographed the story of the on-going revolution: Fidel Castro, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Raul [...]

  • Bruno de Monès

    Bruno de Monès

    Bruno de Monès was born in 1952 and grows up in Marocco. Back in France after his baccalauréat, he dedicated himself to photography, first as a fashion photographers' assistant then as a contributor [...]

  • Jacques Boyer

    Jacques Boyer

    From the beginning of the 20th century until the 1950s, Jacques Boyer (1869-1960), photographer and "scientific promoter" established at 5bis, rue Saint-Paul in Paris, imported, distributed and [...]

  • Jack Nisberg

    Jack Nisberg

    Jack Nisberg was born in Chicago (USA) in 1922. He started studying photography but his course was interrupted when the U.S. entered World War II. At first he served on the Pacific front and later in [...]

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  • Science and technology

    Science and technology

  • Libération de Paris

    Libération de Paris

  • Beaux Arts

    Beaux Arts

  • Universal & Colonial Exhibitions

    Universal & Colonial Exhibitions

  • Life under occupation

    Life under occupation

  • WWII

    WWII

  • Architecture

    Architecture

  • History of France

    History of France

  • Insolite

    Insolite

  • Artist portraits

    Artist portraits

  • Transportation

    Transportation

  • Rural life and villages in France

    Rural life and villages in France

  • Dance & Opera

    Dance & Opera

  • Cinema

    Cinema

  • Marville & Atget

    Marville & Atget

  • Music

    Music

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FAQs

  • What uses can I make of the images on the Roger-Viollet website ?

    If you wish to use our images for professional use, public representation or commercial use (e.g. decoration of stores, hotels or other public places, exhibitions, etc.) or to reproduce them in a magazine, publication, film or documentary, on a commercial or institutional website, etc., you must obtain prior authorization and pay for the rights of use. You can request a quote here.

  • Are all the photos from the Roger-Viollet collection and the France-Soir collection digitized and visible on your website ?

    An important part of the Roger-Viollet collection (6 million documents) and the France-Soir collection (1 million photos) is already accessible online. We are constantly digitizing and indexing tens of thousands of new images that are constantly being added to the roger-viollet.fr site on a daily basis.

  • What type of license is attached to Roger-Viollet images ?

    "The images on the Roger-Viollet website are under a Rights Managed license, which implies that each use is unique. The scope of the license is based on several factors such as the media, the position and size of the image, the duration of use, the territory of distribution, etc.
    For a free quote, click here.

  • What is the fee for images for professional use ?

    The fee for our images depends on the use you are going to make of them. It is calculated according to several criteria such as the media, the position and the size of the image, the duration of use, the territory of diffusion, etc.
    For a free quote, click here.

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