Such experience led him to be appointed under contract on July 1, 1933 (renewed in 1936) as the only salaried photographer for the magazine Vu, for which he made more than 1,300 photos.
[4] Through the thirties, at different times he had studios in the 2nd arrondissement at 27, boulevard des Italiens and 6 rue d'Uzès, both a short walk to the sites of his theatrical pictures; the Folies Bergère, Paris Opera, and the Casino de Paris, where he photographed music hall artists including Maurice Chevalier, whom he also showed informally strolling with the children of Belleville, and amongst the crowds of other 'Paris Zones'.
Blanchette Brunoy, Geneviève Cluny, France Delahalle, Ginette Leclerc, Christine Carère, Véra Norman, Anne Doat, Jean Chevrier, Pierrette Bruno and Swiss actor Michel Simon; singers Edith Piaf, André Claveau, Henri Salvador and Egyptian-born Reda Cairo; variety artists Charpini and Brancato; directors Henri-Georges Clouzot, Christian-Jaque and Christian Matras, students of Alberte Aveline's class at the Paris Opera ballet school; writers Pierre Mac Orlan and Georges Simenon; and Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais in Les Parents terribles; as well as politicians and military officers.
His imagery appeared intermittently in Nuit et Jour (1946-1947) and in 1948 he photographed at the Fresnes prison to illustrate Levée d'énuro, by Georges Lupo.
[14][15] In his, and the century's, fifties Paris continued to work, undertaking a wide variety of commissions for film stills, celebrity portraits and photo-novels.