Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: LE CLER, Paula
Title: Untitled [Food and supply restrictions, German-occupied Marseilles, France], ca. 1942
Event Date: ca. 1942
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.117583

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: [in graphite] I/3; typed and handwritten: [in black ink and graphite on paper adhered with paste] I/III. The worried face -- the badge defeated France, even among the still / relatively well-to-do. The stuffing of ones [sic] shopping bags with any odds / and ends one can still find -- of foods, or commodities -- even fragments / that would have been discards in bygone days. The traveling from stall to / stall -- to find everything gone at this one and that one. The pause of / perplexity, and the thought: Where else can I go to search for this need / or that need? ... Meantime, the stallkeeper, still insulated by some of her / pre-Hitler fat, knits in the absence of anything else to sell -- with wool / unravelled from an older garment.; stamped and handwritten: [in black ink] Credit: [black star] / Paula Le Cler / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: WWII FRANCE / MISC
Retouching: N