Sfax yesterday and today: 40 postcards from 1900 juxtaposed with 40 photos of 2013
Tunis - A photographic exhibition entitled "Sfax yesterday and today" is being held until March 31, House of France in Sfax giving see 40 old postcards juxtaposed with 40 recent photographs of the same scene .
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The exhibition offers the sight of old shots of several landmarks including the oldest date of 1905 as the Sfax railway station.
The public knowledge can also take a virtual tour outside Sfax through the site of the French Institute of Tunisia (IFT), with memory-images of several places: a view of the minaret of the town hall (1910), the hotel des Oliviers of 1920-2013, the walls between 1900 and 1910, Souk el Haddadine 1920, Medina 1915, 1943 Rex cinema etc. These images are just samples of a selection of postcards proposed by Dr. Aloulou and revisited the Maghreb photographic Center (MPC), young association created by passionatephotographerss of Sfax's heritage.
In this selection, Dr. Mohamed Aloulou was keen on photography and the history of the city, says the photographer Pierre Gassin, Head of PMO affirms that the exhibition is comprised of photographs taken by young students of Sfax responsible for revisiting sites on old postcards that "I had to first select".
According to him, this approach has more merit: "It is testing the young talents while allowing them to know and analyze in detail what these places were and what they have become."
In this memory of work and descent, the exhibition allows people to discover the heritage and revive the memory of a city through including some unusual shots such that the street of the republic and the water tower which today has disappeared.
In a statement to TAP news agency, the former Minister of Youth and Sports in the government of Ghannouchi, Dr. Aloulou (former vice-president of the municipality of Sfax for Culture and Protection Association nature and environment) noted that the value of these old maps, antique lamp, are evidence of a palpable "unnatural beauty."
Thus, he says, more anarchic constructions have undermined the architectural aesthetics of the medina or some boulevards such as Balhouane street.
According to Pierre Gassin, founder of CPM, this exhibition will " make young people aware of the importance of urban and cultural development to actively participate in its development." Extracted from family photo albums and the secret drawers of borjs, photographs highlight the history of Sfax in the last century in all its richness and diversity.
The public knowledge can also take a virtual tour outside Sfax through the site of the French Institute of Tunisia (IFT), with memory-images of several places: a view of the minaret of the town hall (1910), the hotel des Oliviers of 1920-2013, the walls between 1900 and 1910, Souk el Haddadine 1920, Medina 1915, 1943 Rex cinema etc. These images are just samples of a selection of postcards proposed by Dr. Aloulou and revisited the Maghreb photographic Center (MPC), young association created by passionatephotographerss of Sfax's heritage.
In this selection, Dr. Mohamed Aloulou was keen on photography and the history of the city, says the photographer Pierre Gassin, Head of PMO affirms that the exhibition is comprised of photographs taken by young students of Sfax responsible for revisiting sites on old postcards that "I had to first select".
According to him, this approach has more merit: "It is testing the young talents while allowing them to know and analyze in detail what these places were and what they have become."
In this memory of work and descent, the exhibition allows people to discover the heritage and revive the memory of a city through including some unusual shots such that the street of the republic and the water tower which today has disappeared.
In a statement to TAP news agency, the former Minister of Youth and Sports in the government of Ghannouchi, Dr. Aloulou (former vice-president of the municipality of Sfax for Culture and Protection Association nature and environment) noted that the value of these old maps, antique lamp, are evidence of a palpable "unnatural beauty."
Thus, he says, more anarchic constructions have undermined the architectural aesthetics of the medina or some boulevards such as Balhouane street.
According to Pierre Gassin, founder of CPM, this exhibition will " make young people aware of the importance of urban and cultural development to actively participate in its development." Extracted from family photo albums and the secret drawers of borjs, photographs highlight the history of Sfax in the last century in all its richness and diversity.
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Sfax-yesterday-...