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Charles Marville, photographer
French, 1816 - 1879
Paul Dubois, twenty-seventh plate in this bound selection of 81 illustrated essays from the series,Galerie contemporaine, littÈraire, artistique, circa 1876 - 1894
Woodburytype
11.7 x 8.4 cm (image)
Museum purchase, Mrs. Milton S. Latham Fund 1992.139.27
photo publisher, Goupil et Cie.~publisher, Galerie contemporaine, littÈraire, artistique
Artist Credit: all
Artist Biography: Began to photograph ca. 1851. Opened studio in Paris 1854. 1862 named photographer to Imperial Museum at the Louvre and of the City of Paris. Photographed ruins of the Commune in 1871.~~Marville was hired during Haussmannization (in the 1860s) to document the~streets and sights of Old Paris, and the demolition and construction that preceded the city of boulevards and monuments thas was to come.~Working systematically, often only one step ahead of Haussmann's demolition crews, Marville assembled an extraordinary photographic~record of the narrow, mysterious streets of Old Paris.~~While this project was executed as a professional commission, Marville was one of the great artists of his day. Beyond their historical~value, Marville's photographs are extraordinary examples of the albumen process, one that creates photographs with a tonal range far~beyond that available through the use of today's gelatin silver process
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