Color photos of Paris under Nazis kick up storm
By Megan • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)Brian Rohan reports for Reuters:
“PARIS (Reuters) – An exhibition of rare color photographs of occupied Paris in World War Two has sparked a controversy in France, with some politicians saying it paints too rosy a picture of life under the Nazis.
Paris deputy mayor Christophe Girard, who heads the city’s culture department, has even suggested shutting down the show of work by French photographer Andre Zucca unless the organizers seek to counterbalance the cheery vision on display.
“It doesn’t explain enough that this was Nazi propaganda, and this makes me vomit… As it stands, we’re looking at revisionist history,” Girard told Reuters on Monday.
Called “Parisians under the Occupation”, the 270 color photos depict a wartime Paris with more emphasis on joy than the jackboot — which Girard says is inappropriate for an occupation still painful in French collective memory.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
Email this author | All posts by Megan
