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From the 1920s, Paris became a crossroads for photographic artists from all corners of the earth. Those drawn here by the regrowth from the ashes of the first world war, as well as those who came due to exile from somewhere else, all found a melting pot of arts and culture to participate in. This gave rise to many great manes in photography developing their art, for a time, in the city of lights. The list is long: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Erwin Blumenfeld, Brassai, Rudomine or Man Ray to name a minuscule handful of the great names. In-between the two wars, France played host to a photographic gestalt, and this exhibition seeks to recognise this essential period by bringing together around a hundred works from forty-odd photographers who worked in Paris between 1920 and 1939, as well as several original documents from the time. These elements allow a studied examination of a period of rapid development and artistic concentration that occurred in our city (adopted or not) in this essential period.