Parisienne de Photographie, in charge of digitizing and distributing the French Capital’s photographic and iconographic heritage, runs the Paris en Images site and offers a free access on line to 5 major photographic collections from the City of Paris' museums and libraries.
Millions of images from Musée Carnavalet, the Paris Historical Library (Bibliothèque Historique), Bibliothèque Administrative and Bibliothèque Forney are shown on the internet for the first time.

Discover some thematic selections :

Eugene Atget (1857-1927)
Musée Carnavalet holds one of the largest Atget collection in France : over 6,000 prints, part of thematic albums or isolated photographs.
Charles Marville (1816-1879)
His work is well represented in the collections of the Musée Carnavalet, the Historical Library and the Administrative Library of the City of Paris.
René-Jacques (1908-2003)
In the 1980s, the Bibliothèque Historique acquired over 3,000 of his photographs of Paris and the region.

Search in our Collections Gallery now, soon thematic selections to come :

Enter photographer's name in the field "keywords".
François Kollar (1904-1979)
François Kollar was born in Hungary in 1904 and settled in Paris in 1924. He founded his own studio in 1930. In 1931, he started with publishing house Horizons de France photographic reports about the French working world all around the country, an extensive study - over 2,000 photographs - produced over 4 years and published from 1932 in instalments, met with public and critical acclaim. Advertizing and fashion photography as well as industrial reports, or photo murals for the Paris 1937 World Fair pavilions, his production was widely exhibited and published, until the mid 1960's. He died in 1979.
In 1975, Horizons de France donated the photographer's production for La France Travaille to the City of Paris' graphic arts library, Bibliothèque Forney.
Roger Henrard (1900-1975)
Born in Paris in 1900, Roger Henrard trained as a pilot during his military service and, from 1931, started testing aerial view cameras manufactured in his father’s factory. He bought his first plane in 1932 and was granted a permanent authorization to fly over Paris. His first photos were published in 1938 by L’Illustration. Just before the war, he flew secret reconnaissance missions over Germany and in 1940 joined the Allied forces. He returned to Paris in 1943 and devoted himself to his acrobatic passion all over France. From 1948, his photographs illustrated various dictionaries, school books or postcard. In 1952, he published photo album Paris vu du ciel, followed by his autobiography Un enragé du Ciel. He died in 1975.
Musée Carnavalet acquired his aerial photographs of Paris in 1984.