The epicenter of art and progress: a photo of Paris in 1923

The author of these pictures is Jules Gervais-Courtelmont, born in 1863 in a suburb of Paris. He grew up in Algeria and traveled almost the entire Middle East and North Africa. During his travels, Jules Gervais-Courtelmont photographed everything he saw.

This man was one of the first photo artists who worked with autochroms. This was the name of the oldest process of creating color photographs, patented by the Lumiere brothers in 1903.

This technique was based on potato starch granules, painted with red, green and blue paint, as light filters, as well as a complex development process, resulting in ghostly “point-like” color photographs.

In January 1923, Gervais-Courtelmont returned to Paris after his long wanderings. That's how he saw him.