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| Keywords: Bayard Construction Worker, Paris.jpg A construction worker stands below eye-level amidst the geometric structure of a two-story building This photographic view of daily life in the 1840s was quite unusual demonstrating Hippolyte Bayard's early interest in what later came to be considered a social-documentary approach Aside from his human subject Bayard seemed drawn to the negative shapes of the broken glass pane of a shuttered window and those of the barred one below These graphical forms support the photograph's gridlike composition which seems curiously at odds with its gentle framing The oval mask may have been an attempt to soften the subject's starkness following a fine-art approach adopted by photographers in the 1800s Bayard made many views of Paris in the early years following photography's invention favoring the British-invented calotype process over France's daguerreotype process He created this photograph several years before working on a series of architectural studies for the Commission des Monuments Historiques' Mission Héliographique a French government-sponsored project to record historic buildings around the city It also predates Eugène Atget's atmospheric Parisian street scenes made some fifty years later 1845 “47 Salt print Image 16 6 x 11 7 cm 6 9/16 x 4 5/8 in Sheet 16 8 x 12 cm 6 5/8 x 4 3/4 in Institution Getty Center object history exhibition history other versions 71399 Secondary Inscription Inscribed in pencil on album page acide chlor credit line accession number 84 XO 968 82 PD-100 Hippolyte Bayard Paris in the 1840s Barred windows in Paris Men at work in Paris Broken windows 19th-century people of Paris 1840s photographs Salt prints Photographs in the Getty Museum Calotypes in the Getty Museum | ||||
