Les plus grands photographes de l époque Lartigue, Kertész, Branger, Boyer, Savitry, Atget, Harlingue donnent à voir cette modernité à travers des clichés saisissants de vie. Paris est une fête !
The cannons of the Great War had barely ceased fire when the Roaring Twenties began in 1919. The Stock Market Crash in 1929 hailed the end of this euphoric chapter when Jazz and the Charleston dance craze took Paris by storm. Great fun was had at Maxim s, La Rotonde, La Coupole, Le B uf sur le Toit. A bare-breasted Joséphine Baker performed on stage in the Revue Nègre while over at Le Jockey or Magic City, a little less scantily clad dancers shimmied the night away, people sunbathed on the banks of the Seine and automobiles replaced horse-drawn carriages.
Such modernity was documented by the era s top photographers Lartigue, Kertész, Branger, Boyer, Savitry, Atget, Harlingue who present us with images that are so full of life. It s plain to see Paris really was a Moveable Feast!