Paris in Vivid Color Images by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont, 1923
Paris as seen from the church of Saint Gervais.
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These colored photos by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont will take you back through time to see how Paris looked in 1923. The vivid images are produced using the autochrome technique in which the plates are covered in microscopic red, green and blue colored potato starch grains (about four million per square inch).
When the photograph is taken, light passes through these color filters to the photographic emulsion. The plate is processed to produce positive transparency. Light, passing through the colored starch grains, combines to recreate a full-color image of the original subject.
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A blind alley in old Paris.
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Paris during the 1920s was an enigmatic and frivolous place. The people were changing, norms were being challenged and sexualities were becoming more present in the social spectrum.
The Jardin des Tuileries.
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Stereotypically, the 20s were a place in history where people, especially the youth, began to break out of their societally-decided places and experiment with how they fit in with the world.
A flower market near the Chatelet.
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Cars appeared on the roads; picture houses opened, projecting the world’s first silent movies; radios appeared in households; jazz flourished, and musical halls – where icons like Josephine Baker and Maurice Chevalier launched their careers – became the places to see and be seen in.
The Palais Garnier opera house.
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Paris was at the heart of it all, not only in terms of fashion and entertainment but in the domains of decorative art and architecture, as movers and thinkers drew inspiration from cubism, modernism, and neoclassicism to create the ‘total’ style that came to be known as art deco.
Horses and workers on a riverbank.
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Formal gardens and ponds.
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The church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont.
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Paris in 1923.
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/National Geographic Creative/Corbis
Men on the Île de la Cité.
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/National Geographic Creative/Corbis
A view through trees across the Seine.
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/National Geographic Creative/Corbis
The gardens of the Senate building.
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/National Geographic Creative/Corbis
The hotel of Madame de Lamballe, a friend of Marie-Antoinette.
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/National Geographic Creative/Corbis
The Moulin Rouge nightclub at Montmarte.
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/National Geographic Creative/Corbis
A colonnade and lake in a garden.
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/National Geographic Creative/Corbis
The Moulin de la Galette, or Mill of the Cake, at Montmartre.
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A view across the Seine.
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/National Geographic Creative/Corbis
The church of Saint Germaine l’Auxerrois.
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/National Geographic Creative/Corbis
The cathedral of Notre Dame.
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/National Geographic Creative/Corbis
The street of Saint Julian the Poor in old Paris.
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/National Geographic Creative/Corbis
A pathway in the gardens of a large estate.
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/National Geographic Creative/Corbis
Men stand beside crafts for sale near the cathedral of Notre Dame.
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/National Geographic Creative/Corbis
The Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées.
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The Trocadero gardens and the Eiffel Tower.
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/National Geographic Creative/Corbis
A view down the street to the Panthéon.
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/National Geographic Creative/Corbis
A street scene outside a butcher’s shop.
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/National Geographic Creative/Corbis
The Museum of the Decorative Arts in the Tuileries.
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/National Geographic Creative/Corbis
The flower market on the Quai aux Flaers.
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/National Geographic Creative/Corbis
The Porte Saint-Denis.
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont/National Geographic Creative/Corbis
Twilight on the Seine.
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