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Creator

French Photographer · 1813–1879

Originally trained as a painter, engraver, and illustrator, Charles Marville became known as a landscape and architecture photographer. He traveled to Italy, Germany, and Algeria and used both paper and glass plate negatives. In the late 1850s the city of Paris commissioned Marville to document the ancient quarters of the city before encroaching urban modernization changed them forever. He photogr