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.2005.117938

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: [in graphite] I/4 Photographing France Under Hitler / 2 W.W. / France / I; stamped and handwritten: [in black ink] Credit: [black star] / Paula Le Cler / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK; typed: [in black ink on paper adhered with tape] I / 4 / They cling to their old respectability, these men and women of Hitler-despoiled / Marseille -- like this suffering old lady wrapped in what she has left of her old / warm garments, shawls surmounting the insufficient coat. It's not just the biting / Mediterranean cold, which can be very cold; but that cold in conjunction with next / to nothing to eat, and a total lack of fuel, hot water and any kind of comfort. There / are shadows under the old lady's eyes -- the shadows that are the badge of all France / today, and a sign of its sad undernutrition.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: WWII FRANCE / BREADLINE SHORTAGES-WELFARE
Retouching: N