1970 Paris, cut into a grid and photographed

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In spring 1970, the City of Paris and FNAC organized an amateur photography contest to create an exhaustive photographic coverage of Paris, divided into a grid of 1755 squares, each 250 meters per side.
15,000 candidates registered, and 2,800 submitted complete portfolios.
The photographs were donated to the Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris, which digitized them and made them available on their website.
This site allows users to view all photos from a square at a glance before accessing high-definition versions on the Bibliothèque historique's website.
There are 30,225 digitized photographs from 6,918 candidates available.
Note: Only digitized photos are available; some submitted proofs are not part of the digitized collection.
Each page of the plan is divided into 250-meter squares. Click on a page to display it and select the square of interest.

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