| The image culture of 1930s France has
been the focus of rich scholarship, from Françoise Denoyelle's history of
commercial photography during the period (her two-volume
La Lumiere de Paris)
through Adrian Rifkin’s exquisite book Street Noises: Parisian Pleasure
1900-40. Those Parisian weekly papers from this period which covered crime
and police work are especially cherished by present-day historians, if only
because their popularity among the Surrealists is well established and
easily observed. Gallimard's Detective
is the best known of these papers, and we offer
images from several covers here, all of them from the years 1931-1936. Police
Magazine is less studied or remembered, but was scarcely less
inventive in its interior layouts and in the stark character of its covers. The
Police covers posted here are all from 1931-1933.
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