Paris, 1923 — the epicenter of art and progress
The author of these unique historical photographs by Jules Gervais-Kurtelson (Jules Gervais-Courtellemont). He was born in 1863 in the suburb of Paris, grew up in Algeria and toured the middle East and North Africa, photographing everything I saw.
Gervais-Kurtelson was one of the first photographers who worked with autochromes is the oldest process of color photography, which was patented by the Lumiere brothers in 1903. Autochrom used granules of potato starch dyed red, green and blue paint, as filters, as well as the complex development process, bringing out the illusive "point" color photographs.
In January 1923 Gervais-Kurtelson returned to his native Paris to shoot the main attractions and city living a period of economic growth and optimism after the First world war.
View of Paris from the Church of Saint-Gervais
In the back streets of old Paris
The Tuileries Garden
Flower market near Chatelet
Opera Garnier
The workers and horses on the banks of the river
Classic French-style gardens and ponds
The Church of Saint-étienne-du-Mont
Men on Ile de La Cité
The view of the Seine river
The gardens of the Senate building
The hotel of Madame de Lamballe, friend of Marie-Antoinette
Cabaret "Moulin Rouge"
Colonnade and pond in one of the gardens of Paris
Windmill "Moulin de La Galette" in Montmartre
The view of the Seine river
Church of Saint-Germain-l Osera
Notre Dame Cathedral
Rue Saint-Julien-Le-Pour in the old Paris
Gardens large estate
A street vendor along the Seine river near Notre Dame Cathedral
The Grand Palace on the Champs Elysees
Worker sleeping in a wagon with cobblestone
The gardens of trocadéro and Eiffel tower
View of the Pantheon
Street life in front of the butcher shop
Museum of decorative arts in Paris
Flower market on the quay Fleur
Porte Saint-Denis
Twilight over the Seine