27 Fascinating Photos of French People Posing in Front of Their Boulangeries From the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
France is world famous for its delicious baking. If you love bread, you can find a bakery or, as the French call it, a boulangerie, on almost…
Fascinating Color Photos Capture Street Scenes of Paris in the Mid-1960s
Not unlike its Western “great power” counterparts, 1960s France was a time of economic gains and social upheaval. The country rebuilt itself from the destruction wrought by…
Vintage Photographs of Paris Taken by Eugène Atget at the Turn of the 20th Century
Eugène Atget was an early French photographer who captured images of the rapidly disappearing elements of Paris during the waning 19th century. His straight forward yet wistful…
40 Amazing Black and White Photographs Capture Everyday Life in France During the Mid-20th Century
Photographer Janine Niepce (February 12, 1921 – August 5, 2007), one of the first photo-journalists in France, was a distant cousin of Nicéphore Niépce, the inventor of…
Mesmerizing Black and White Pictures of Winter Life in 1950s Paris
The City of Light shines year-round, but winter in the French capital is particularly enthralling and magical. As Cole Porter put it: “I love Paris in the…
The Extending Mini-Skirts in Paris in the Mid-1960s
The miniskirt was introduced in 1965 at the fashion show of French designer André Courreges. He felt that the design of women’s clothes was not keeping up…
Paris 50 Years Ago: Amazing Black and White Vintage Photos of the City of Light in the 1960s
Taken throughout the streets of Paris over 50 years ago, this series of black and white images captures a sophistication and joie de vivre that encapsulates the…
Vintage Photographs of People Having Fun at the Bois de Boulogne During the Winter of 1956
In February 1956, winter made the Bois de Boulogne a playground for skaters. On the lake covered with 18 cm of ice, skaters of all ages tried…
Beautiful Paris in the 1950s Through Kees Scherer’s Lens
Born 1920 in the Amsterdam working-class district called ‘de Jordaan’, Dutch photographer Kees Scherer began working as a freelance photographer and reached the pinnacle of photojournalism with…
Historical Photos of Germany in the Era of Hyperinflation in the Early 1920s
During the hyperinflation in Germany of 1920s, the country’s currency, the mark, went crazy. The government of the Weimar Republic may have been able to clear its…