Quai de la Picture near our accommodations (a venue that we visited for you and even had dinner at!) has a brand new free picture exhibition on supply referred to as The Seine, The Seine.
Cut up into two elements, Proper financial institution, Left financial institution is comprised of over 80 images of the river courting from the second half of the nineteenth century as much as provided by the Roger-Viollet picture company, whereas the second half is named La Supply, a sequence of images by Frédéric Stucin displaying an actual/imagined voyage up the river to its supply.
As you may think, the Seine performed an enormous position within the growth of Paris, and the exhibition Rive droite, Rive gauche (Proper financial institution, Left financial institution) will present you simply how a lot, with quite a few black and white prints (and some color pictures) of the surprisingly bust industrial exercise, images of the Common Expositions of 1889 and 1900 (plus the Worldwide Exposition of 1937 that’s not so well-known), the booksellers alongside the river, youngsters enjoying within the water, life on the barges, fishermen, swimmers and the large flood of 1910 when 20,000 of the town’s buildings have been flooded…
A guide of this a part of the exhibition is accessible on-site within the venue’s specialist bookshop La Comète for 15€, and in case you fall in love with any explicit picture, you should buy prints on-line right here!
The second a part of the exhibition exhibits the work of Frédéric Stucin, a voyage to the supply of the Seine with a dreamlike really feel, mixing nature, urbanism and virtually a way of menace. Alongside the way in which, Stucin met individuals from the ages of 22-72 whose robust hyperlinks to the river impressed every shot.
These images are additionally introduced collectively in a guide available for purchase on-site or right here at your native Amazon for round 42€.
Free guided visits of the exhibition (in French) can be found from Wednesday-Sunday at 12.30, 2.30, 4.30 and 6.30pm, there’s an ideal restaurant with river views and you may even go on a mini-tour of the Seine on a ship referred to as Zero de Conduite (max. 12 individuals) from Wednesday-Saturday, for the very cheap value of 15€ per particular person!
Extra data right here.
The exhibition La Seine, La Seine is at Quai de la Picture (right here) till eighth Septembre 2024
Open Wednesday-Sunday, midday-midnight
Free!
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