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On the set of Abel Gance's film Napoléon
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On the set of Abel Gance's film Napoléon
"Les bouquinistes" in Paris

"Les bouquinistes" in Paris
Yom Kippur War

Yom Kippur War
100th anniversary of the birth of Maria Callas on 02/12/2023

100th anniversary of the birth of Maria Callas on 02/12/2023
Death of Jean-Pierre Elkabbach

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<span style="font-size:80%">BORIS LIPNITZKI</span>
© Boris Lipnitzki / Roger-Viollet

From October 12, 2023 to january 20, 2024

BORIS LIPNITZKI

A Russian photographer chronicling the 30s Paris.

After fleeing Ukraine in the 20s, the young Boris Lipnitzki settled in Paris as a photographer. He set up his own studio, where he worked for Chanel, Schiaparelli, Balenciaga… Celebrities from the world of the arts passed before his lens: Piaf, Joséphine Baker, Montand, Jouvet, Foujita, Picasso, Colette, Duras, Sartre… In less than twenty years, the immigrant became a celebrity.
The Galerie Roger-Viollet presents 76 numbered, limited-edition modern prints.

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    Holidays by Janine Niepce

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    The pan

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    News pictures France-Soir and of 1944-1945

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    100 years 24 hours of Le Mans

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    The aerostat around 1900

  • Retirement home for lyric artists by Gaston Paris

    Retirement home for lyric artists by Gaston Paris

  • Large families

    Large families

  • "To the sources of energy" by François Kollar

    "To the sources of energy" by François Kollar

  • Melting glaciers

    Melting glaciers

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    Social housing

  • Elections. Waiting for the results

    Elections. Waiting for the results

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Our Photographers

  • Léon et Lévy

    Léon et Lévy

    Moyse Léon and Isaac known as Georges Lévy started their career as assistant operators at the Ferrier-Soulier Parisian photographic studio under the Second Empire. They founded their own studio in [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Colette Masson

    Colette Masson

    Colette Masson began her career in 1966 when she met the lyric singer Régine Crespin. For forty years, she photographed the shows and the artists which marked the history of dance and lyric art in [...]

  • Françoise Demulder

    Françoise Demulder

    Françoise Demulder, born in Paris in 1947, was one of the most famous women photojournalists at the end of the 20th century, working for major French & International press agencies. She began by [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Henri Martinie

    Henri Martinie

    Henri Martinie who was born in Corrèze in 1885 had a career particularly centered on literary circles. During the years 1920 to 1940 in his studio on the rue de Penthièvre, he took an exceptional [...]

  • Maurice-Louis Branger

    Maurice-Louis Branger

    Maurice-Louis Branger who was born in Fontainebleau in 1874 began to work as a photographer beginning in 1895. Around 1905 he created the photo reportage agency "Photopresse" at 5 rue Cambon in [...]

  • Neurdein

    Neurdein

    The Neurdein firm was founded in 1864 by Etienne Neurdein, son of the photographer Charlet. His brother Antonin soon joined him. This was at first a typical Parisian studio, where people could have [...]

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