Charles Marville
Subtitle: photographer of Paris
By: Sarah Kennel ; with Anne de Mondenard, Peter Barberie, Françoise Reynaud, Joke de Wolf
Contributors: Marville, Charles, 1813-1879, photographer; National Gallery of Art (U.S.); Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); National Gallery of Canada
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780226092782; 9780894683855
Subjects: History; ART; Exhibitions; PHOTOGRAPHY; Criticism and interpretation; Modern (late 19th Century to 1945); General; Photographers; France; Individual Photographers; Biography; European; Artistic Photography; Pictorial works; HISTORY
Description: "Charles Marville (1813-1879) 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 in honor of Marville's bicentennial, Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris surveys the artist's entire career. This beautiful book, which begins with the city scenes and architectural views Marville made throughout France and Germany in the 1850s, also explores his portraits and landscapes s before turning to his photographs of Paris made both before and after the city's dramatic modernization in the 1850s and 1860s. Commissioned to record the city in transition, Marville created one of the earliest and most powerful photographic series documenting urban transformation on a grand scale. Despite the importance of his work, Marville has long been an enigma in the history of photography, in part because many of the documents about his life were thought to have been lost in a fire that destroyed Paris's city hall in 1871. Based on meticulous research, this volume reveals many new insights into Marville's personal and professional biography, including the central fact that he was born Charles-François Bossu. He shed this name (which means hunchback) and adopted the pseudonym Marville when he began his career as an illustrator in the 1830s. With five essays by respected scholars, this book offers the first comprehensive examination of Marville's life and career and delivers the much-awaited public recognition his photographs so richly deserve"--
Notes: "Hardcover edition copublished by The University of Chicago Press"--Title page verso.

"Exhibition Dates, National Gallery of Art, Washington, September 29, 2013-January 5, 2014, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 27-May 4, 2014, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June 13-September 14, 2014"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Charles Marville, Hidden in Plain Sight / Sarah Kennel; title: Marville: Before the Streets of Paris / Anne de Mondenard; title: Marville in the Bois de Boulogne / Peter Barberie; title: Marville and Old Paris / Françoise Reynaud; title: Paris on Display: Marville's Photographs at the Universal Exhibitions / Joke de Wolf; title: Timeline; title: Artist's Signatures and Stamps.