In this Loire-Atlantique chapel, a surprising exhibition on the pedestrians of Paris

Since the start of the mandate, the deputy for culture of Paimboeuf (Loire-Atlantique), Michel Jullien, launched the meeting of the January imageeach time unearthing surprising photographic and heritage exhibitionsranging from the monuments of Egypt that were silted in 1870, through the daily life of the Provençal village of Cucuron in 1900, or the trades of the 1920s.

And this 5^e edition is no exception to the rule, with this time, photos taken and exhibited for the very first time, from the slides by photographer Jean d'Yvoire.

Sorting among 1000 photos

Two of these nephews, Jean and Christophe, came across these photos in the family archives.

Our uncle took a lot of photos, and we found all these slides in boxes that we were going to put in the trash.

He came across thousands of photos. “It took me a long time, but I looked at everything and saw value in it. I first did an initial sorting of around 800 photos, before reducing it to 200.” To finally arrive at this final selection which presents 32, around the theme “The pedestrian of Paris”.

Daily life in Paris

An illustrious unknown in photography, Jean d'Yvoire “took it all the time, in the street or from his balcony in the 13th^e and the XV^e borough. He captioned them all, with the location, time, date and even orientation.”

These photos which show daily lifewhether it is an elderly man in a suit and tie on roller skates, a couple sitting on the terrace of a café or a small traffic accident, go far beyond the simple gaze of the daily.

From each photo emerges a poetry, an amused look, a framing, a composition or a timing that invites nostalgia, empathy or imagination.

A writing workshop on February 5

In addition to this exhibition, Glawdys Sauvaget is offering a writing workshop that she will host on Wednesday February 5, 2025 from 2 p.m. (free upon reservation at the tourist office), inviting people to guess “the moment before , the next moment and the thoughts of the characters to write together and be a group.”

Free and open-access exhibition, visible every Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Saint-Charles de Paimboeuf chapel, until Sunday February 9, 2025.

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