Photographers’ names are not often printed on postcards.
This makes it difficult, if not impossible, to identify photographers.

Only the greatest photographers have left a trace of their work.

Sometimes photographers are publishers, taking part in exhibitions or taking part in events or works commissioned by the authorities.
These photographers are therefore known and recognized.

But many remain and will remain unknown and forgotten.

A website created before 2012 by Madame Degroise, curator of the Archives nationales de l’Outre-mer, is the bible for lovers of photos and postcards. The site sometimes contains omissions or errors, but Marie-Hélène believed from the outset that communicating was the best way to attract amateurs and professionals alike to pay tribute to 19th-century photographers.

Cartacaro takes up the same principle with the same words, supplemented by 21st-century photo and postcard finds.

Thank you, Ms. Degroise. Read more

Madame Degroise passed away in 2012, in memoriam