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022609278X | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Reproduced from tritone separations by Robert Hennessey, the images bring to life nineteenth-century Paris with such vividness that in one standout shot, the grain of wood on the side of a shed—perhaps a hundred feet from the camera—is seen in startling detail. —Christopher Lyon
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“Charles Marville is best known for his government commission to photograph the neighborhoods of Paris slated for demolition during Baron Haussmann’s reconfiguration of the city between 1853 and 1870. In fact, that is virtually all he has been known for, a matter the authors of Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris are eager to rectify. Among the basic but previously unknown facts they have unearthed are his real name (Charles-François Bossu—which means “hunchback”) and his date of birth (1813). They have also delved into his early career as an illustrator for the popular press and his pre-commission work as a photographer. . . . It is wonderful to finally have appropriately scaled reproductions of these pictures at hand.”
(Luc Sante, New York Review of Books)
“The images bring to life nineteenth-century Paris with such vividness that in one standout shot, the grain of wood on the side of a shed—perhaps a hundred feet from the camera—is seen in startling detail.”
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- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (October 2, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 022609278X
- ISBN-13: 978-0226092782
- Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 9.8 x 1.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 4.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
This is the catalogue that accompanies the exhibition of Charles Marville's photographs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., from September 2013 until January 2014, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from January 2014 until May, and then at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa from June until September. It is a collaborative effort of those museums and commemorates the 200th anniversary of Marville's birth in 1813. Although there were a couple of shows of his works in Paris and New York around 1980, this exhibition has been put together from over twenty public and private collections and is the most comprehensive presentation of his works ever assembled. Among the photographers we associate with nineteenth-century France--Le Gray, Le Secq, Atget, et. al.--Marville has been for some time the least well known, owing in part simply to a lack of information about him. For example, it was only the intensive archival research undertaken for this project that revealed that "Marville" was in fact the assumed name of Charles-Francois Bossu. This and other pertinent biographical information is woven into the general introduction by Sarah Kennel, an associate curator of photographs at the National Gallery, the principal organizer of the exposition, and the editor of the catalogue. This is a richly illustrated essay of about forty pages that traces Marville's life and work from his early artistic training and occupation as a commercial artist to his increasingly recognized work as an unofficial and quasi-official photographer who styled himself variously as "Photographer of the Imperial Museum of The Louvre," "Photographer of the National Museums," etc.
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