Marianne. Project for the cover of the magazine "Regards" of July 9th, 1936
Marcel Cerf was born in 1911. Historian and journalist, he contributed to the "Monde" from 1929 to 1935, a magazine founded by Henri Barbusse. In 1935, he joined the team of the "Regards" magazine as a reporter-photographer, covering meetings but also social, political, sports and cultural events under the Popular Front. Some of his photos were published on the front covers. After five years of captivity in Germany during WWII, Marcel Cerf devoted himself to History, especially to the Paris Commune. He only used his Rolleiflex for private purposes. By the time of his death in January 2010, his daughter Claudine Cerf donated his photographic collection to the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris (Historical Library of the City of Paris).