A 1970 photo competition captured 30,000 color slides and 70,000 black-and-white prints of a vanishing Paris. This exhibition resurrects that archive for the first time, inviting you to wander through neighborhoods frozen in time.
archival photography
paris in the 1970s
amateur documentation
free admission
Tips
🗺️Browse digitized photos by arrondissement to find your own neighborhood's past
🎬Immersive slide viewer lets you see diapositives like they were in the 1970s
🎙️Free evening lectures pair with the exhibition, Wednesday nights at 19h
Times
Friday, June 12
Free
C'était Paris en 1970
June 12 at 12am
+19A 1970 photo competition captured 30,000 color slides and 70,000 black-and-white prints of a vanishing Paris. This exhibition resurrects that archive for the first time, inviting you to wander through neighborhoods frozen in time.
archival photography
paris in the 1970s
amateur documentation
free admission
Tips
🗺️Browse digitized photos by arrondissement to find your own neighborhood's past
🎬Immersive slide viewer lets you see diapositives like they were in the 1970s
🎙️Free evening lectures pair with the exhibition, Wednesday nights at 19h
Times
Friday, June 12
Free
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