A typical French couple on the terrace of a sidewalk café. He looks at the passers-by, while Madame is making up.
[Paris Cafés: Landmarks of Paris Life]
1930s
Gelatin silver print
9 1/16 x 6 3/4 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43201 [Further details available]
1 of 34
This is exactly what people imagine the Bohemian customers of an artists' café look like. A couple of late guest[s] at the Dome Café on Montparnasse. The gentleman with the disheveled hair is especially true to type.
[Paris Cafés: Landmarks of Paris Life]
1930s
Gelatin silver print
6 1/2 x 9 1/4 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43202 [Further details available]
2 of 34
Monsieur seems bored. Candid shot of late hour patrons at a Montparnasse café.
[Paris Cafés: Landmarks of Paris Life]
1930s
Gelatin silver print
6 3/4 x 9 1/8 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43203 [Further details available]
3 of 34
A crowd of patrons at a Montparnasse café.
[Paris Cafés: Landmarks of Paris Life]
1930s
Gelatin silver print
6 11/16 x 9 1/4 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43204 [Further details available]
4 of 34
Parisians, like all French people, are fond of kissing each other. They do it openly and without restraint in all parts of the city, and nobody minds.
[Paris: City of Kisses]
1938 (Photo story published)
Gelatin silver print
6 3/4 x 9 3/16 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43205 [Further details available]
5 of 34
'Thanks ever so much for the nice ride.' And before climbing down from her pillion [passenger] seat, she gives her friend a hearty kiss.
[Paris: City of Kisses]
1938 (Photo story published)
Gelatin silver print
6 7/8 x 9 3/16 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43206 [Further details available]
6 of 34
A French soldier is not too proud to kiss his girl in public, even when he is wearing his uniform.
[Paris: City of Kisses]
1938 (Photo story published)
Gelatin silver print
6 5/8 x 9 3/8 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43207 [Further details available]
7 of 34
A Paris side street as it lives in the imagination of movie directors and romantic people: the little hotel entrance, the gas lamp in the corner, and an embracing couple.
[Paris: City of Kisses]
1938 (Photo story published)
Gelatin silver print
8 1/4 x 6 7/8 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43208 [Further details available]
8 of 34
Sorry, the camera was too small to get the whole figure of a prominent member of The Fat Men's Club on one print.
[Le Club des Cent Kilos]
1932 (or earlier)
Gelatin silver print
9 7/8 x 7 5/8 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43209 [Further details available]
9 of 34
Some of the member[s] of the 'Des Cent Kilos' (The Fat Men's Club) leaving for a Sunday party on their peculiar bicycles.
[Le Club des Cent Kilos]
1932 (or earlier)
Gelatin silver print
6 15/16 x 9 3/4 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43210 [Further details available]
10 of 34
He has to pay twice as much for a suit, but he is proud to be a member of The Fat Men's Club.
[Le Club des Cent Kilos]
1932 (or earlier)
Gelatin silver print
6 15/16 x 9 3/4 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43211 [Further details available]
11 of 34
Some of the members leaving for a Sunday party.
[Le Club des Cent Kilos]
1932 (or earlier)
Gelatin silver print
6 7/8 x 9 15/16 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43212 [Further details available]
12 of 34
A throng of elegantly dressed men and women snapped by the photographer. Many fur coats were worn because of the rainy weather.
[Night Races at Longchamps, a Gala Event of Paris Society]
1930s
Gelatin silver print
7 1/8 x 4 3/4 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43213 [Further details available]
13 of 34
A prominent visitor from London, Mr. Selfridge (white hair, pince-nez). To his left is Mme. Trebor, in the background the Paris banker Lazard and Miss Marcelle Roger, to the right of Mr. Selfridge is Mme. Lazard.
[Night Races at Longchamps, a Gala Event of Paris Society]
1930s
Gelatin silver print
4 11/16 x 7 1/16 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43214 [Further details available]
14 of 34
The well known French actress Suzy Prim counting her money. We hope she won.
[Night Races at Longchamps, a Gala Event of Paris Society]
1930s
Gelatin silver print
4 11/16 x 7 1/8 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43215 [Further details available]
15 of 34
Multimillionaire [Raymond] Patenâtre, who is married to an American [and is] Minister of Economics in the Daladier Government, discussing odds with a friend.
[Night Races at Longchamps, a Gala Event of Paris Society]
1930s
Gelatin silver print
4 11/16 x 7 1/8 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43216 [Further details available]
16 of 34
A member of the Republican Guard delivering an important message at the Foreign Office, maybe a communication from the Prime Minister or another colleague of M. Georges Bonnet. At right are bags with diplomatic mail.
[Quai d'Orsay (Inside the French Foreign Office)]
1939 (published)
Gelatin silver print
6 13/16 x 8 7/16 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43217 [Further details available]
17 of 34
The offices are closed, but the two leading men at the Quai d'Orsay still have a last minute conference...
[Quai d'Orsay (Inside the French Foreign Office)]
1939 (published)
Gelatin silver print
6 7/8 x 9 3/16 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43218 [Further details available]
18 of 34
M. [Robert] Coulondre, French ambassador to Germany, calls at the Quai d'Orsay. 'You will find me at M. [Jules] Henri's office should the Minister want me,' he is telling attendants. M. Henri was then 'Chief of Cabinet' at the Quai d'Orsay.
[Quai d'Orsay (Inside the French Foreign Office)]
1939 (published)
Gelatin silver print
6 13/16 x 9 3/16 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43219 [Further details available]
19 of 34
Two high officials of the French diplomatic service. M. Aimé Leroy, formerly confidential adviser to Aristide Briand and now Minister to Lisbon (left) with M. [Pierre] Bressy, Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet's 'Chief of Cabinet'.
[Quai d'Orsay (Inside the French Foreign Office)]
1939 (published)
Gelatin silver print
9 1/4 x 6 13/16 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43220 [Further details available]
20 of 34
A bit of exercise to get used to the masks.
[Paris Protects its Inhabitants Against Gas Attacks]
1934 (published)
Gelatin silver print
7 1/16 x 5 1/8 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43221 [Further details available]
21 of 34
Trying out the effect of gas in a Paris apartment house.
[Paris Protects its Inhabitants Against Gas Attacks]
1934 (published)
Gelatin silver print
7 3/16 x 9 11/16 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43222 [Further details available]
22 of 34
Next to the tubes of aspirin and digestive aids, the first gas masks have made their appearance in the windows of Parisian pharmacies.
[Paris Protects its Inhabitants Against Gas Attacks]
1934 (published)
Gelatin silver print
5 1/8 x 6 15/16 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43223 [Further details available]
23 of 34
A sales[woman] in a drug store, where gas masks are sold, tries to praise the latest 'creations' in gas masks.
[Paris Protects its Inhabitants Against Gas Attacks]
1934 (published)
Gelatin silver print
7 9/16 x 9 7/8 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43224 [Further details available]
24 of 34
This medical examination is not artifice. The majority of those being examined haven't seen a doctor in their lives.
[Guests at Rikers Island Prison]
1937 (published)
Gelatin silver print
6 5/8 x 9 1/16 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43225 [Further details available]
25 of 34
The cells themselves resemble small, tidy hotel rooms, laid out with taste and a scrupulous pursuit of hygiene.
[Guests at Rikers Island Prison]
1937 (published)
Gelatin silver print
9 1/16 x 6 5/8 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43226 [Further details available]
26 of 34
àNow groups of twenty to thirty prisoners file in silence by the barred gates. They make their way toward the reception roomsàIt's a series of rooms that are bright, but not at all pleasant.
[Guests at Rikers Island Prison]
1937 (published)
Gelatin silver print
6 1/2 x 4 7/16 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43227 [Further details available]
27 of 34
Completely disrobed in the small, sparkling clinic, the new residents of Rikers Island await their medical exam.
[Guests at Rikers Island Prison]
1937 (published)
Gelatin silver print
4 1/2 x 6 1/2 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43228 [Further details available]
28 of 34
The Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie arriving in Geneva to ask help from the League of Nations against Mussolini's Fascist invasion of Ethiopia
1936
Gelatin silver print, modern
9 1/8 x 13 9/16 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43229 [Further details available]
29 of 34
Mussolini at Stresa, Italy
1935
Gelatin silver print, modern
9 3/16 x 7 3/4 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43230 [Further details available]
30 of 34
Triumphant Léon Blum presenting his government program to the Socialist congress after the 1935 electoral victory of the leftist coalition, Paris
[We look in at France's first Socialist cabinet meeting]
1936
Gelatin silver print
5 x 7 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43231 [Further details available]
31 of 34
The negotiators hard at work. [Pierre] Laval, [Anthony] Eden, [Franþois] Piétri (Naval Minister), [and Henri] Berenger (Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs), Quai d'Orsay, Paris
[Eden-Laval talks: discussing the Anglo-German naval agreement]
1935
Gelatin silver print
4 9/16 x 7 1/16 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43232 [Further details available]
32 of 34
Untitled
[Roulette at le Touquet Casino]
1930s
Gelatin silver print
4 3/4 x 7 1/8 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43233 [Further details available]
33 of 34
Mothers at the St. Cyr Military Academy graduation ceremonies, France
1937
Gelatin silver print, modern
8 3/4 x 13 1/4 ins
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate
LL/43234
34 of 34
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Contents - Themes & Fragments
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