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Demonstrations against
the high cost of living through
the Excelsior newspaper fund

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50th anniversary of Picasso's death on 8 April
87230-9 © Fondation Horst Tappe / Keystone Suisse / Roger-Viollet

50th anniversary of Picasso's death on 8 April
Death of Marcel Amont

Death of Marcel Amont
Demonstrations against the high cost of living through the Excelsior newspaper fund

Demonstrations against the high cost of living through the Excelsior newspaper fund
Tribute to Gisèle Halimi on 8 March

Tribute to Gisèle Halimi on 8 March
Death of Michaël Denard

Death of Michaël Denard
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<span style="font-size:80%">Photographic history of women in the 20th century</span>
© Boris Lipnitzki / Roger-Viollet

From January 6 to April 1, 2023

Photographic history of women in the 20th century

This history of women in the 20th century, as seen through the Roger-Viollet collections, is the history of their emancipation. Freeing themselves from the guardianship of their fathers or husbands, they eventually obtained all civil rights, on an equal footing with men. These hundred years were for women a conquest of their freedom. But how did they live during these decades? What was the fate of their time? Which famous women have marked their time?
The Roger-Viollet Gallery exhibits a selection of 86 photographs from the book Une histoire photographique des femmes au XXe siècle published by Gründ Editions.

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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
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Spotlight

  • 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

  • Large families

    Large families

  • "To the sources of energy" by François Kollar

    "To the sources of energy" by François Kollar

  • Melting glaciers

    Melting glaciers

  • Social housing

    Social housing

  • Elections. Waiting for the results

    Elections. Waiting for the results

  • The election poster

    The election poster

  • The coal

    The coal

  • The wheat

    The wheat

  • The Russian Revolution of 1917

    The Russian Revolution of 1917

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Exhibition rentals
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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

  • 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 [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Boris Lipnitzki

    Boris Lipnitzki

    Boris Lipnitzki, born in Russia in 1887, came to live in Paris in 1921. There he met Paul Poiret who introduced him to this clientele, set up his first studio and began a career as an up and coming [...]

  • Irmeli Jung

    Irmeli Jung

    Irmeli Jung was born in 1947 in Tampere, an industrial city in southern Finland, to an unknown father. Her mother Irja Jung was a nurse in a psychiatric hospital. At the age of thirteen months she [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Jean-Paul Guilloteau

    Jean-Paul Guilloteau

    Jean-Paul Guilloteau has traveled the world over in search of "magazine" subjects that since 1986 have illustrated the pages of L'Express magazine. In Europe, he primarily covered the former Soviet [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Léopold Mercier

    Léopold Mercier

    Beginning in the 1880s, Léopold Mercier had a profitable business in Paris and Cabourg as a photographer and editor producing photographic reproductions of art works and publishing works such as "The [...]

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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.
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