Roger-Viollet: NOVA coleção editorial
09-04-2009
NOVA coleção editorial agora representada pela Imageplus.
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In 1938, Hélène Roger-Viollet and her husband, Jean Fischer, established “la Documentation Photographique Générale Roger-Viollet”, in a small store located 6 rue de Seine in Paris.
The original collections included the Léopold Mercier and Laurent Ollivier archives (acquired with the premises) as well as the life-work of two passionate amateur photographers, Henri and Ernest Roger, Hélène’s father and uncle.
Over the years, the agency acquired various collections composing a fabulous historical testimony: world events and small crafts, fine arts, science, politics and everyday life, exotic journeys and streets of Paris, portraits of celebrities as well as snapshots of unknown passers-by…
The collections also document over a century of photographic history : from the works of Ferrier-Soulier (French Second Empire’s fine arts), Neurdein & Lévy (historical and geographical reports - 1880 to 1918), Maurice-Louis Branger ( war and everyday life reports – 1900-1930), Pierre Choumoff (Russian immigration in Paris in the 20s and 30s), Jacques Boyer (political and scientific life), Albert Harlingue (French and Parisian life, 1910-1950) or Laure Albin-Guillot (fashion and advertising 1920-1960), to the portraits from the Boris Lipnitzki studio (performing arts from the 20s to the 70s)...
Now a reference historical archive in Europe, Roger-Viollet distributes a collection of over 8 million photographs and represents some of the major International photographic heritage agencies in France, whilst providing images to the press and publishing industry as well as the multi-media, television, cinema and advertising sectors.
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Roger-Viollet’s milestones
- June 6 th 1881: Henri Roger scribbles in his notebook “negative #1: Henri ‘s room (facing the wardrobe)”. It is his first experiment with photography. Fascinated by this new way of capturing information, he kept taking pictures of his family and surroundings all his life, creating the agency’s first collection (8000 negatives).
- October 14 th 1938: Hélène Roger-Viollet, Henri Roger’s daughter, and her husband Jean Fischer buy the collection of Léopold Mercier and Laurent Ollivier as well as Ollivier’s store located 6 rue de Seine in Paris, thus establishing the “Roger-Viollet General Photographic Documentation” (30.000 negatives, 50.000 prints). As well as contributing their own family negatives, the agency’s founders successively acquired the Branger, Boyer, Harlingue, Albin-Guillot, Martinie, Lipnitzki, Lévy , Neurdein and LAPI collections, as well as many others…In the post-war decades, Roger-Viollet established itself as one of the leading French photographic archives.
- Upon the founder’s death in 1985, their collection was bequeathed to the City of Paris. Roger-Viollet still distributes this priceless heritage, and has undertaken the digitalization and on-line distribution of the photographs since 1998 while pursuing an active acquisition policy (Françoise De Mulder, Pierre Barbier, Gilberto Ante, Marie Mathelin collections).
- In 2003, with a view to offering its clients an even greater range of images, the agency initiated partnerships with some of the leading European & International photographic archives, such as Alinari, Ullsteinbild, TopFoto, Imagno, UPPA, The Image Works, Bilderwelt, and the Shaw Family Archives.
- In July 2005, Roger-Viollet was integrated to the “Parisienne de Photographie” group, a photographic heritage preservation and development company controlled by the City of Paris.
- En juillet 2005, l’Agence rejoint le groupe SAEML « Parisienne de Photographie », une société d’économie mixte de préservation et valorisation de fonds photographiques patrimoniaux détenue en majorité par la Ville de Paris.
- The new Roger-Viollet website, launched in the spring of 2006, offers close to 280.000 digitalized pictures, including 60.000 from its 8 International partner collections, which offer an additional and complementary perspective on the XIXth and XXth century’s major events.
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Collection timeline
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