Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris

by Sarah Kennel

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Charles Marville (1813–1879) is widely recognized as one of the most talented and influential photographers of the nineteenth century. Celebrating his bicentennial, the National Gallery of Art hosted a major retrospective exhibition titled *Charles Marville: Photographer of Nineteenth-Century Paris*. This comprehensive book accompanies the exhibition and offers an in-depth survey of Marville’s entire career, showcasing his remarkable contributions to the art of photography. The volume begins with Marville’s early works, including city scenes and architectural studies he captured throughout France and Germany in the 1850s. It also explores his diverse portfolio, which encompasses landscapes, portraits, and his iconic photographs of Paris before and after the city’s transformation. Marville was commissioned to document the city during a period of rapid change, and he became known as the official photographer of Paris. His images vividly depict the medieval streets that were razed to make way for the broad boulevards, parks, and monumental buildings that define the modern City of Light. Marville’s legacy has long been shrouded in mystery, partly because many documents about his life were believed to have been lost in a fire that destroyed Paris’s city hall in 1871. Through meticulous research, this volume sheds new light on his personal and professional biography. A key revelation is that Marville was not his birth name; born Charles-François Bossu in 1813, he adopted the pseudo

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2013
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 022609278X
• Condition: Very Good

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