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„PARIS, A CENTURY OF PHOTOGRAPHS“
Cultural heritage of Paris: Roger-Viollet Agency
 


FOTOFO in Photograph Gallery Profil, Prepoštská 4,814 99 Bratislava
Opening hours: 1 p.m. – 6 p.m. except Mondays

Henri Roger made his first pictures in 1880.
His love for photography was carried over his daughter Helen.
Helen met Jean Fischer and together they bought a shop and archive from a collector of photos in de Seine street.
In 1938 Roger-Viollet Agency was found. „Fischers“ on their
journeys collected pictorial documentation from all over the world.
In Paris they had acquired many collections of great photographers as Branger, Lipnitzki a Laure Albin-Guillot. These collections constituted several milions of shots. In their last will Mr and Mrs Fischer transfered their property and collections to the ownership of city of Paris. It happened on january 1994, when the Roger-Viollet Foundation arised to bring the heritage to prosperity and make it a true
landmark of the city. This exhibiton reflects its position.
We can admire changeable and unknown Paris, Paris built up with World exhibitions, which were repeatedly running in the capital city from 1867 untill 1937, but we can admire fashion ,transportation ,trade, everything what made Paris to change. The image of streets had also changed on the course of a century. Roger-Viollet gives out a unique, vivacious and touching testimony of that course.