Until 22 June 2025 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography (Amsterdam) will be showing a selection of 72 original, large-format prints by the Séeberger brothers, successful French amateur photographers, in the exhibition Revoir Paris. Paris through the lens of the Séeberger brothers (1900-1907). The brothers’ photos were made in the course of four photographic competitions organised by the city of Paris in the early 20th century, and are now held by Musée Carnavalet, the museum of the history of Paris itself. They represent an early form of street photography, and have never been exhibited on this scale before. Of the 72 prints on show in Huis Marseille, sixteen were rediscovered in 2017 in the attic of the Paris museum.
The Séeberger brothers were Jules (1872-1932) and his two younger brothers, Henri (1876-1956) and Louis (1874-1946). Their photos show the city’s most iconic locations, such as Montmartre, but also less well-known spots, like the Bièvre river. Every location is enlivened by the presence of Parisian men and women. The exhibition offers a chronological and thematic journey through the Paris of the belle époque as seen through the lens of the Séeberger brothers – who captured, better than anyone, the atmosphere of the capital on the eve of the First World War.
Revoir Paris. Paris through the lens of the Séeberger brothers (1900-1907)
Until 22 June 2025
Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
Keizersgracht 401
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland 1016 EK · Netherlands
https://huismarseille.nl/en/
