"L'Illustration" - Année 1938 - January/July

Throughout a century - from 1843 to 1944 - from the July Monarchy until the end
of the French Third Republic, "L'Illustration", the first illustrated weekly in French,
has been the mirror of all the major events and daily life, in France and worldwide.
["L'ILLUSTRATION", official site].

The first edition of January 1938 - the 96th year since the birth of the magazine - highlights
a British-Japanese meeting in Shanghai , on the site where a grenade, launched by a Chinese
student, exploded.











[Click HERE for August to December 1938].

"L'illustration" is the first title of the French press to have used photography in a systematic
way since the late nineteenth century.
The magazine was recognized as a national treasury by the French State, for the extent and
the richness of its worldwide events' coverage.

Check out "L'ILLUSTRATION, or the Memory of a Century", a documentary by René-Jean
Bouyer about the magazine history [from the official site].
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[Go to: ANNEE 1937]

"L'Illustration" - Année 1937

Unfortunately, the collection is far from complete, but these cover pictures
of L'ILLUSTRATION suggest the climate of 1937 and the years to come.









[:o) Merci papà d'avoir préservé tout ça].
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Founded by Edouard Charton, L'Illustration was a weekly French newspaper
published in Paris from 1843 to 1944.
In 1891, L'Illustration was the first French newspaper to publish a photograph and,
in 1907, the first to publish a color photograph.
During the Second World War, L'Illustration was published by Jacques de Lesdain,
a 'collaborator'.
After the Liberation of Paris, the newspaper was shut down.
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* Read a more detailed article on French Wikipedia, (if you are familiar with French).


"L'ILLUSTRATION, or the Memory of a Century", by René-Jean Bouyer,
a documentary on the magazine, from the official site.
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[Go to: ANNEE 1938]

PPG presents: PGC on Le Mur...

Le M.U.R. - # 102 - PhotoGraffCollectif - August 4/2011
BLOGS:
PhotoGraff Collectif
Graff à la Forge
Graff à Dénoyez
Le Mur d'Oberkampf

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The Black Market of Belleville...

... Illegal, yet so real :

It is a pretty wild and mobile market, generally displaying between the Ménilmontant
and the Belleville subway stations but, sometimes, it can unexpectedly spread until
the Place du Colonel Fabien.





Several hundred residents - exasperated by the noise, and the dirt that devastate the
boulevard when hawkers leave the ground - marched on May 21, between the subway's
stations of Couronnes and Belleville, to denounce the illegal market that plagues the
neighborhood.



Every day, a large number of hawkers settle on the pavement, deploying an incredible
array of items - recoverd from the trash as well as stolen - like secondhand shoes and
clothes, old transistors, pots and broken appliances, cell phones and computers...
and so on.


The City Council and the police headquarters didn't seem, for now, to have found a
solution to put an end, once for all, to the illegal occupation of the public space.

Then, the urban cleansing services... well, they keep cleaning.
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