“Eyes on Paris“ shows how artists engaged in photography saw, experienced and captured Paris with the camera. The artists’ gaze oscillates between documentary interest and subjective perception, a chronicler’s duty and the projection of personal feelings.

Around 400 photographic works by important representatives of 20th-century photography enter into a dialog with epoch-making books, portfolios or rare portfolio works. After all, no other city in the world has been the subject of as many outstanding publications as Paris: from Atget to Ed van der Elsken, from Robert Doisneau to William Klein. Not only does the catalogue bring together all the important 20th century books on Paris (with photographic illustrations). It also tells about their genesis and reception.