Paris, one street corner at a time

Dupleix Photo Library is a small independent archive of street photography from the 15th arrondissement and around. This origin feeds our content delivery network, so previews load quickly wherever our readers are.

Shopfronts at 38bis Rue du Commerce, 1904

Rue du Commerce, 1904

Shopfronts and corner cafés, from the municipal survey plates.

Covered trench before Boulevard de Grenelle station, April 1909

Métro aérien, Line 6

From the 1909 works on Rue du Commerce to the viaduct today.

Pont de Bir-Hakeim at night

Quai de Grenelle at night

Long exposures along the river, a continuing series.

Recent additions

Corner of Rue du Commerce and Rue Fondary, 1905 Place Dupleix, corner of Rue Violet, 1890s Former town hall of Grenelle, around 1900 Line 6 viaduct over the Seine at dusk, 2021

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