Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris
by: Kennel, Sarah

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages. Charles Marville (1813-79) is widely acknowledged as one of the most talented photographers of the nineteenth century. Accompanying a major retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Art to honor Marville's bicentennial, Charles Marville: Photographer of Nineteenth-Century Paris offers a survey of the artist's entire career. This beautiful book, which begins with the city scenes and architectural studies Marville made throughout France and Germany in the 1850s, and also explores his landscapes and portraits, as well as his photographs of Paris both before and after many of its medieval streets were razed to make way for the broad boulevards, parks, and monumental buildings we have come to associate with the City of Light. Commissioned to record the city in transition, Marville became known as the official photographer of Paris. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.