Charles Marville

Charles Marville, 1851, 20 February, Self-Portrait at a Window, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/53907

Charles Marville

Born: Charles Bossu
Born: Charles François Bossu

Born: 1813, 17 July - France, Paris
Died: 1879, 1 June - France, Paris
Gender: Male
Active: France
 
He began his career as a draftsman making wood engravings and lithographs. French photographer specializing in religious sites. By 1851 he was working for the Louvre Museum in Paris as an official photographer. He also took a series of about 425 images of the ancient roads that were to be destroyed by Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann's redesign of Paris. A decade later he returned to the same localities to photograph the new roads. He did a remarkable series on the kiosks, pissoirs, decorative ironwork and gas lights along the new streets of Paris.
 
The Musée Carnavalet (Paris) and the State Library of Victoria (Melbourne), with over 320 digitized examples online, have excellent collections of his photographs.

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