{"id":2484,"date":"2021-02-17T10:34:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T09:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niepceparis.com\/?page_id=2484"},"modified":"2021-02-17T10:46:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T09:46:09","slug":"historical-background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/niepceparis.com\/en\/historical-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Background"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Historical Background<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The Montparnasse quarter<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Roots of the legend of Montparnasse go back to the pre-1920s when renowned artists\u00a0\u201cthe Montparnos\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0set up their workshops in this quarter of Paris. Numerous works of art bear witness to their presence in Montparnasse\u2019s caf\u00e9s, bars, bistros and other famous places.
In keeping with the avant-garde perspective of that time and portraits of self-possessed women defying society\u2019s expectations, such as Kiki de Montparnasse, photographed by Man Ray and painted by Foujita, the Niepce Paris Hotel offers a very particular slant on femininity.
Photographs of women, whether famous or anonymous, have provided a rich source of inspiration for the hotel\u2019s interior design. Some photographic portraits are the work of\u00a0Janine Ni\u00e9pce<\/strong>. This photo-journalist has left us with a very eclectic collection of women\u2019s portraits, one of her preferred subjects. She shot candid photographs in contrasted light of Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras and many other women, both famous and unknown, taken as they go about their daily lives, Janine Ni\u00e9pce published numerous books as part of the humanist photography movement.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The reputation of Montmartre in the 1900s and price inflation persuaded artists to settle in another district in Paris. The extension of Metro Line 12 to Pigalle in 1911 enabled them to easily travel to the quarter of Montparnasse.\u00a0Among the famous artists that contributed to the prominence of this quarter<\/strong>\u00a0are Soutine, Modigliani, L\u00e9ger, Pascin, Braque, Kisling, Chagall, Zadkine, Brancusi, Man Ray and, of course, Foujita\u2026 Not to mention renowned writers like Hemingway, Faulkner, Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sartre\u2026
The quarter was the beating\u00a0heart of Parisian artistic life<\/strong>\u00a0from 1900 to 1920 and the bohemian spirit can still be felt today. Just a stone\u2019s throw from Montparnasse station, at 21 Avenue du Maine, you will be able to discover the Cit\u00e9 des Arts, miraculously preserved vestige of the Artists\u2019 Montparnasse. This place continues to reflect the pleasant way of life from back in the day when painters, sculptors and photographers lived here.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Chemin du Montparnasse is home to the Espace Krajcberg, named after the Polish sculptor, and Villa Vassilieff, the cultural centre owned by the City of Paris. Chemin du Montparnasse has been forever marked by the diversity and creative proliferation driven by the multitude of artists and intellectuals from around the world who gathered here.
The Mus\u00e9e du Montparnasse gives visitors some insight into the quarter\u2019s cosmopolitan history traced out by the many international and French artists who lived and worked in this district, such as Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Braque, Cocteau, to name but a few\u2026<\/p>

Another emblematic figure from this epoch who also left her mark is Kiki de Montparnasse. Singer, model and exuberant, self-possessed woman, she lived through the avant-garde movement and rubbed shoulders with bohemian artists of that time, becoming their charismatic muse and photographed or painted by a great many of them. These works have now entered the quarter\u2019s artistic hall of fame.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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JANINE NI\u00c9PCE\u2019S PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS OF WOMEN\n<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Photographer Janine Ni\u00e9pce, one of the first photo-journalists in France, was a distant cousin of Nic\u00e9phore Ni\u00e9pce, the inventor of photography. She photographed with great talent ordinary people going about their daily lives, much like humanist photographers Robert Doisneau and Willy Ronis. Influenced by Henri Cartier-Bresson, who gave her very sound advice on photo-journalism, she joined the Rapho Agency in 1955.
Her photos cover the second half of the 20th century and recount not only how women\u2019s issues and status changed over fifty years, but also catalogued the fast disappearing rural and farming life, the carefree period following the end of the Second World War, \u201cLes Trente Gloreuses\u201d, and events taking place in France during the May 1968 civil unrest.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Member of the Gens d\u2019Images association (a non-profit association under the French 1901 Act comprising amateur and professional photography enthusiasts), Janine Ni\u00e9pce chaired the Ni\u00e9pce Prize award panel for many years. In 1981, Janine Ni\u00e9pce was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres [Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters] and then, in 1985, became Chevalier de la L\u00e9gion d\u2019Honneur [Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour].
Several books bear witness to her extensive career: France, with texts written by Marguerite Duras (1992),\u00a0Les ann\u00e9es femmes<\/em>\u00a0(1993),\u00a0Mes ann\u00e9es campagne<\/em>\u00a0(1995), Les vendanges<\/em>\u00a0(2000)\u00a0Fran\u00e7aises, Fran\u00e7ais, le go\u00fbt de vivre<\/em>, with historian Jacques Marseille (2005).\u00a0
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Historical Background The Montparnasse quarter Roots of the legend of Montparnasse go back to the pre-1920s when renowned artists\u00a0\u201cthe Montparnos\u201d\u00a0set up their workshops in this quarter of Paris. Numerous works of art bear witness to their presence in Montparnasse\u2019s caf\u00e9s, bars, bistros and other famous places. In keeping with the avant-garde perspective of that time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2751,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2484","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/niepceparis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/niepceparis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/niepceparis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niepceparis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niepceparis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/niepceparis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2498,"href":"https:\/\/niepceparis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2484\/revisions\/2498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niepceparis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/niepceparis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niepceparis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}