{"id":259609,"date":"2026-01-27T06:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/259609\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T06:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:15:12","slug":"francois-kollar-shines-a-light-on-parisian-workers-between-the-world-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/259609\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran\u00e7ois Kollar shines a light on Parisian workers between the World Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">An address, a first name, a surname, the outline of a family: scant details provided by population censuses. Yet, for those who know how to read them, such registers are brimming with information and capture a city&#8217;s sociological makeup at a given moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">The Mus\u00e9e Carnavalet in Paris has used these records as a starting point to evoke life in Paris a century ago. Drawing on three censuses, from 1926 (the first to compile a list of Parisians by name), then in 1931 and 1936, the exhibition<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.carnavalet.paris.fr\/expositions\/les-gens-de-paris-1926-1936\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Nouvelle fen\u00eatre\"> &#8220;Les gens de Paris, 1926-1936. Dans le miroir des recensements de population&#8221;<\/a> (&#8220;The People of Paris, 1926-1936. In the Mirror of Population Censuses&#8221;) invites visitors, until February 8, to discover the capital&#8217;s population during the interwar years as never before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">The material is presented by neighborhood, profession, building and social class, but how can the cold data of these registers be brought to life? How can the faces of nearly 3,000,000 inhabitants be restored? To give them form, the museum draws on the &#8220;La France travaille&#8221; (&#8220;France at Work&#8221;) photo report, created by Fran\u00e7ois Kollar during that decade.<\/p>\n<p>                  2,000 precious photographs                  <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">After leaving Bratislava, then part of Czechoslovakia, for Paris in 1924, Kollar trained in advertising photography. He attracted attention at the 1930 International Photography Exhibition in Munich, Germany. There, he met Florence Henri, Andr\u00e9 Kert\u00e9sz and Germaine Krull \u2013 the elite of the avant-garde photography scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">In 1931, he was commissioned to conduct an extensive photographic survey documenting France&#8217;s industrial sector. Until 1934, he traveled through more than 20 regions of France to meet workers and employees, and to discover workshops and factories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"reading-mode-only \">You have 58.19% of this article left to read. The rest is for subscribers only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An address, a first name, a surname, the outline of a family: scant details provided by population censuses.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,438,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-259609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}