Let’s start at the end. Apart from strong questions, relayed in 2017, concerning the sustainability of the structure, the last time that Release was seriously interested in the Roger-Viollet agency dates back to 1985. But, spread over three pages, the subject was not so much on the gesture of the photographic collection of six million images, as on a flashy news justifying abrupt ex a transfer to the “news item” section. In question, the epilogue as unexpected as tragic of this saga which began in 1938, which at a time of retirement, the founding couple continued to develop in the old fashioned way: because, Hélène Roger-Viollet, 83 years old (eldest daughter of Henri Roger, engineer and himself an inventive photographer with a weakness for photomontage which inspired the creation of the small Parisian company) had just been wildly tru …
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