Hotels Paris Rive Gauche

Initially a Rive Gauche affair, the 2nd edition of this event has now spread to most other parts of Paris as well...

Hotel Paris

jeudi 3 avril 2008

Photo exhibition on the Eiffel Tower: Parisian Chronicles - 70 years of daily life in Paris

From the vaults of the Roger-Viollet Agency, a selection of photos showing Paris between 1880 and 1950.
Hotel Paris

Bal du 14 juillet devant le Panthéon. Paris Vème arr., 1912 © Maurice Branger / Roger-Viollet

mardi 25 mars 2008

The Parisians during the occupation - colour photos by André Zucca

Paris' History Library is currently showing a selection of colour photos never seen before; occupied Paris during the Second World War. Strangely, they give the impression that everything is fine and that everyone is on holiday...
Hotel Paris

photos : André Zucca

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vendredi 14 mars 2008

New photo exhibition at the Hôtel du Panthéon

Tatiana Margaux Bonhomme's photos, previously only visible for the grand opening of our exhibition last year, are finally available to see at the Hôtel du Panthéon.
Hotel Paris

all photos (c) jasonw

vendredi 7 mars 2008

Candida Höfer's large photos of Paris at the Galerie Yvon Lambert

Cologne-based Höfer (born 1944) loves to take photos of huge spaces, but never shows any people....
Hotel Paris

jeudi 28 février 2008

New Rankin photo exhibition - "Chop Off Their Heads"

The British fashion photographer makes a rare appearance in Paris...

mardi 26 février 2008

Lella at the Hôtel des Grands Hommes

Theodore S. Underground, mysterious admirer and collector of photos by Edouard Boubat, was in Paris recently for the retrospective of Boubat's work at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie... And Lella (his muse) stopped by the Grands Hommes....

Another chance to see Tatiana Margaux Bonhomme's special photos

These specially-commissioned photos were previously only available to see for a few hours last October...

vendredi 22 février 2008

That's Great! Photos of Warhol by Ron Galella at Le Bon Marché

Ron Galella's photos of seventies/eighties New York bring you right back to the time when disco was king and the city was blazing. They also prove that Warhol even smiled sometimes...

Susan Anton, Sylvester Stallone, Andy Warhol (Whitney Museum) 20/11/1979. © Ron Galella

mardi 19 février 2008

"Nyctalope", a new photo exhibition by Frédéric Delangle at the Galerie Philippe Chaume

Think you've heard of Frédéric Delangle before? Indeed you have; he was the winner of our photo competition "A hotel photo, an artist's view" last year, and it would seem he is going from strength to strength...

All photos : (c) Frédéric Delangle, by kind permission of the Galerie Philippe Chaume

mardi 29 janvier 2008

Movie Theaters, the forgotten palaces of cinema - a new photo exhibition by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

Photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre search out old cinemas that are in a poor state of repair, most dating from the 20s and 30s, and take haunting photos...

jeudi 24 janvier 2008

Meet Diana and Holga in the new Paris Lomo shop

Not hip with the Lomo mojo? Wondering what we are even talking about? Well, Lomos are great, simple, point-and-click plastic cameras, and the new Paris Lomo shop has tons of them... and lots of other wacky and wonderful stuff...

photos : jasonw

vendredi 18 janvier 2008

Saul Leiter photo exhibition at the Fondation Cartier-Bresson

We discovered Saul Leiter only a couple of years ago, from a book of his photos called Early Color, and instantly fell in love.

photo : jasonw

mercredi 16 janvier 2008

Peter Knapp, Edouard Boubat... 6 (!) new exhibitions at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris

What a great idea, changing all the the exhibitions at once! The perfect excuse to go back and explore this great photography museum...

photo (c) Yury Toroptsov

vendredi 11 janvier 2008

Bibliothèques - a new photo exhibition from Fréd Lebain at the Galerie Philippe Chaume

One of our favourite photographers has found a great new subject...

lundi 3 décembre 2007

Paris in Colour - a new photo exhibition at Hotel de Ville

To mark the 100th anniversary of colour photography, this exhibition show a selection of over 300 photos of our lovely city...

mercredi 28 novembre 2007

Exhibition of photos of Uzbekistan at the Hotel Eiffel Park

Michel Fouteau's portraits show a country that a lot of us know nothing about...

mercredi 14 novembre 2007

au moment x, a photo exhibition by Evangelia Kranioti

Born in Greece but now living in Paris, Evangelia's new exhibition shows her stunningly poetic photos and strangely surreal texts...

jeudi 25 octobre 2007

A special project by Tatiana Margaux Bonhomme: "Do as you please (room n°2)..."

Each year, we will be asking a photographer to create a special project based on his/her stay at the Hôtels Paris Rive Gauche group hotels. He/she will also recreate a room as part of the project…

mercredi 10 octobre 2007

Reminder - "A hotel photo, an artist's view" award on 18th October 2007

At 8pm on 18th October at the Studios Daguerre, we will finally find out who has won 3,000 euros...