Throughout the 1930s, Gaston Paris (1903-1964) was one of the pillars of the weekly magazine Vu, founded in 1928 by Lucien Vogel. The only salaried photographer, he shared the magazine’s pages with Laure Albin-Guillot, Germaine Krull, André Kertész, Martin Munkacsi, Man Ray and Robert Capa. Alongside his reports and portraits of artists and celebrities of the time, he produced strange photographic series inspired by surrealism, work which appeared in Détective magazine from the 1930s to the 1950s to illustrate its stories of gangsters and femmes fatales. His archives were purchased by the Agence Roger-Viollet shortly after his death.
EXHIBITION
Gaston Paris will be exhibited in part of ImageSingulière festival
De Vu à Détective: Gaston Paris
From May 28th to June 15th, 2014
Théâtre de la Mer (salle Tarbouriech)
Promenade Maréchal Leclerc
34200 Sète
France
