Boulangerie, Paris
c. 1913
A posed gelatin silver print of a Paris boulangerie and its staff, made to record the bakery’s workers, their uniforms, and the business’s public identity.
What hits you first is the long rank of men and women shoulder to shoulder—aprons, flour-streaked clothes, delivery carts and the shop’s sign filling the background—whose steady, direct gazes turn the storefront into a single, lived community.
As an early-20th-century documentary portrait, it preserves everyday urban labor and small-scale commerce in prewar Paris and belongs to a photographic strand that made working people and their trades visible to broader audiences.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Approx. 3 9/16 × 5 1/2" (9 × 14 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Acquired through the generosity of Jon L. Stryker and Committee on Photography Fund
Accession
472.2019.354
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