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Pictures of the trade

These are photographs of barbering: barbers at the chair, combs and clippers in use, the poles outside and the tools laid out between appointments. Sable & Fourth Barbers chose them for the character of the trade rather than as a portfolio of finished cuts, so no customer is identified in any of them.

The pictures

Barbers in white coats cutting customers' hair at a row of chairs in a 1940s works barbershop.
Plate 01A company barbershop photographed for a 1946 federal survey: every chair taken, every barber standing, and a queue that the room was built around. The trade has changed its tools since and very little of its posture.
A red, white and blue barber pole mounted on a brick wall.
Plate 02A barber pole against brick. The stripe is the oldest sign in the trade, and it still reads from across a street when nothing else does.
A set of old barber's hand tools laid out inside a glass display case.
Plate 03A case of older barbering hand tools, kept under glass rather than used. Hand clippers like these cut by squeezing instead of by motor, and they set the shape that a modern taper still follows.
Several pairs of haircutting scissors arranged on a dark wooden rack.
Plate 04Haircutting shears on a rack. Blade length changes how a line sits, which is why a barber keeps more than one pair within reach.
A barber combing through a caped customer's hair before cutting.
Plate 05A barber combs the hair out under the cape before a single cut is made. The comb shows which way the hair falls and where the crown sits, and it is the first thing every appointment at the shop begins with.
A long row of barber chairs with barbers at work in a 1930s government office barbershop.
Plate 06The barbershop in a Washington office building, photographed by Harris & Ewing: a row of porcelain chairs, a barber behind each one and a mirror run the length of the wall.
A comb drawn back through slicked hair during a barbering appointment.
Plate 07A comb run back through slicked hair to check the finish. Product goes on after the cut, never before, so the shape can be judged on the hair as it actually grows.
A barber pole fixed to a painted cinder-block wall.
Plate 08A second pole, this one on cinder block. The helix is painted on a turning cylinder, so the stripe appears to travel upward and never arrive.

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The column

A short note when the shop changes something

Holiday hours, a barber joining or leaving, a price that moves. Two or three notes a year and nothing else.

The privacy notice explains what happens to the address.

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