Vintage albumen print, signed and captioned in the plate, mounted on cardboard.
 Docks of La Villette, Ruins of the Paris Commune by Paul LOUBERE (active 1860-1890).
 A copy of this print is in the collection of the Carnavalet Museum and the City of Paris.
 The docks of La Villette were burned down during the Commune. This print depicts a small, intact wooden shack in front of the pile of ruins of the burned docks. Two soldiers are posing on the ruins.
 During the Bloody Week of the Commune (May 21-28, 1871), numerous public buildings were set ablaze. For the first time, a major event in French history was captured by photographers who took to the streets to record the key moments of the Paris Commune. Photography preserved the reality of these moments, traces of which the nascent Third Republic would quickly erase.

Docks of La Villette, Ruins of the Paris Commune by Paul Loubère

Name: Docks of La Villette, Ruins of the Paris Commune by Paul Loubère
SKU: 1297

€300.00

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Vintage albumen print, signed and captioned in the plate, mounted on cardboard.

Docks of La Villette, Ruins of the Paris Commune by Paul LOUBERE (active 1860-1890).

A copy of this print is in the collection of the Carnavalet Museum and the City of Paris.

The docks of La Villette were burned down during the Commune. This print depicts a small, intact wooden shack in front of the pile of ruins of the burned docks. Two soldiers are posing on the ruins.

During the Bloody Week of the Commune (May 21-28, 1871), numerous public buildings were set ablaze. For the first time, a major event in French history was captured by photographers who took to the streets to record the key moments of the Paris Commune. Photography preserved the reality of these moments, traces of which the nascent Third Republic would quickly erase.