How you can resurrect old postcards

An amateur photographer.

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• The operation “Re-photograph the Haute-Garonne” offers amateur photographers the opportunity to reproduce old postcards.

• The originals come from the collection of the Labouche Brothers, famous publishers of the Place du Capitole.

• You have until November 6 to take the challenge.

What are you doing this weekend, and the next ones?

Because if you like to stroll and discover new landscapes, the departmental archives of Haute-Garonne have a challenge for you: to reproduce, with the same the same framing, old postcards, often centuries old.

The photographs in question are those from the Labouche collection.

“The Labouche family, publishers and printers, founded their business in the mid-19th century at 10, place du Capitole, where it occupied all three levels.

The sons Eugène and Lucien, in touch with their time and with society's leisure aspirations, gave all their glory to the postcard, ”says Anne Goulet, director of the departmental archives.

They called on the best photographers.

But despite all their talent, the company, acquired, collapsed in 1966, well before the SMS.

And in 1993, the archives were able to buy back its collection, more than 50,000 documents from the period. The participatory operation “Re-photograph the Haute-Garonne”, which is in its third and last edition, proposes to revive them.

Boussens station nowadays.

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Boussens station as you will never see it again.

- Labouche Fund

An interactive map * allows you to select your “target” and get down to the task.

Even if it means seeing a water tower appear in the middle of the passage, or waiting for the endless line of cars to evacuate the frame.

"We also realize that sometimes the vegetation has grown, that the outlook has changed," notes Anne Goulet.

Train station and crowded streets

In the pool of 1,000 "modern" photographs already collected, she has a particular fondness for that of the teenager who took the trouble to photograph his TER at Boussens station, much less frequented now.

“In many villages, you can see that the streets were swarming with people on the original,” says the specialist.

But we must not fall for all that "it was better before".

At the time, we took people out for photos and we dare not imagine what these dirt streets looked like in rainy weather ”.

Curiously, other places or village squares have remained frozen in time.

Before?

After?

Will nostalgia catch up with you?

The best is to grab your smartphone.

You have until November 6 to photograph the time that has passed.

* On www.hautegaronne.fr/, news section

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