What do the city of 4000 de La Courneuve, the Palace of Versailles and Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral have in common? They were all photographed by Jean-Gabriel Barthélémy. His large-format photos have found a magnificent setting in the exhibition which brings together 80 of his photos on the roof of the Grande Arche de La Défense in Paris.
Jean-Gabriel Barthélémy was an agency photographer for 30 years. His images of La Callas, Salvatore Dali or Princess Diana have gone around the world. In the early 2000s, he had a revelation. It was when he discovered the giant prints of Andréas Gursky in the 2000s that he turned to the monuments of our heritage.