This exhibition is quite unique because one finds lots of “real” Parisiennes from the well-stocked Paris Match archives, but also amazing more contemporary photos that we selected with a jury and the Wipplay photo collective.
Obviously there are many icons such as Catherine Deneuve, Brigitte Bardot, looking fab in front of the Eiffel Tower, Françoise Sagan posing with her typewriter. The Parisienne such as foreigners imagine us to be…
However the exhibition is also punctuated with many photos of strangers, young girls riding a Vélib’, coquette Parisian little old ladies.
There is this girl with a very street punk style that is obviously not the fantasized Parisienne but that we have all run into at Bastille. I find this very funny and straight to the point.
“La Parisienne by Sofitel” exhibition, starting the 7th of June at Sofitel Arc de Triomphe. Free entrance.
