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As part of the conference series around the exhibition C'était Paris en 1970, we welcome Pauline Rossi, head of the archives of the Commission du Vieux Paris.
Conference: Photographing the “Reconquête de Paris”: an inherited and reinvented heritage policy (1954-1975) In the mid-1950s, Pierre Sudreau launched the “Reconquête de Paris,” a proactive policy aimed at rebuilding a city that, while spared from bombing, had since the interwar period been accused of suffering from urban and architectural delay. The major works prompted a new awareness of heritage that is often underestimated. Thus, the “C’était Paris en 1970” competition can also be read as a participatory heritage policy, one that very usefully complements extensive public collections that are sometimes incomplete and little known to the public. Having been entrusted in 1898 with “the preservation of the appearance of parts of the city destined to disappear,” the Commission du Vieux Paris did not fail in its duty during the Trente Glorieuses. Here are two collections which, although very different, both bear witness, today as in the past, to the immense interest held by urban transformations and urban photography. RESERVATIONS OPEN ON MAY 10, 2026
Source: paris.fr — photo: Bibliothèque historique