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Charles Marville, photographic self-portrait, c. 1861. "Rue de Constantine", c. 1865. Charles Marville, the pseudonym of Charles François Bossu ( Paris 17 July 1813 – 1 June 1879 Paris ), was a French photographer, who mainly photographed architecture, landscapes and the urban environment. He used both paper and glass negatives.
Widely acknowledged as one of the most talented photographers of the nineteenth century, Charles Marville (French, 1813–1879) was commissioned by the city of Paris to document both the picturesque, medieval streets of old Paris and the broad boulevards and grand public structures that Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann built in their place for ...
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Around 1832 Parisian-born Charles-François Bossu (1813–1879) shed his unfortunate last name ( bossu means hunchback in French) and adopted the pseudonym Marville. After achieving moderate success as an illustrator of books and magazines, Marville shifted course in 1850 and took up photography, a medium that had been introduced 11 years earlier.
Jan 31, 2014 · You can tell that he didn’t just want to serve his employers, or to preserve the topography of old Paris; he wanted to give photography a permanent office in the modern city.
Feb 26, 2014 · Marville understood that the photos were for the purposes of the city’s archives. As a result, Marville’s work varies stylistically from his contemporaries, who were working privately to make ...
Charles Marville, the pseudonym of Charles François Bossu (Paris 17 July 1813 – 1 June 1879 Paris), was a French photographer, who mainly photographed architecture, landscapes and the urban environment. He used both paper and glass negatives.
Feb 15, 2014 · The extent to which Marville’s later photographs of Paris make urban life “invisible” has been a prominent question since his work was rescued from oblivion by two exhibitions in Paris in ...
