Citoyen MRNov 25, 2022

This is one of my favorite pictures. It feels like it was taken yesterday… but it was taken in a Paris public garden nearly a hundred years ago. Everything feels modern: the composition, the casualness, the daring clothes, haircuts, and accessories.

The colors are original: this is an #autochrome, using the first process for color #photography invented by the Lumière brothers in 1903.

The women are unknown, but I can't help wondering how they fared a few years later in nazi-occupied Paris.

Show threadDr Richard ErskineNov 25, 2022
@citoyen who was the photographer (I don't see a credit) and where was it originally published?
Show threadDr Richard Erskine

@citoyen A few minutes googling turned up the answer, this snap "… was taken by Jules Richard of two women in Paris just before the Nazi invasion in the early 1930s! These women are quite daring in their fashion! Image recently discovered and held by Musee Nicephore Niepce"

https://glamourdaze.com/2013/12/color-photos-of-parisian-women-1930s-and-1940s.html

https://en.museeniepce.com

Color Photos of Parisian Women - 1930s and 1940s

A selection of Parisian women from a recently published selection of photos - taken by French photographer Andre Zucca. Though not a card carrying Nazi, he was quite happy to sell his photos taken with

Glamour Daze
Nov 25, 2022 at 4:52pmWeb