Des photographies aux archives : pour quoi faire ?

On the occasion of the Bicentenary of Photography, the Archives de Paris present an exhibition highlighting the various uses of the photographs (nineteenth to twenty-first centuries) preserved in their collections. Within public archive files, they provide evidence and testimony alongside paper documents. They can also come from photographic collections of private origin, created for documentary, tourist, or artistic purposes. This exhibition on display in the main hall of the Archives showcases some thirty original documents accompanied by explanatory panels.

During the European Heritage Days (19-20 September), guided tours of the exhibition will be offered to visitors.

A selection of documents presented in the exhibition will also be accessible on the Archives de Paris website as a virtual exhibition, starting in January 2027.