For my environment research I choosed Charles Marville. His couple images stuck in my head after the city lecture. Charles Marville was the pseudonym of Charles François Bossu (1813 – c. 1879), a French photographer who mainly photographed architecture and landscapes. He used both paper and glass negatives. In 1858, Marville was commissioned by the city of Paris to photograph the newly refurbished Bois de Boulogne, a royal park on the edge of Paris that had been transformed under the emperor Napoleon III into a site of bourgeois leisure and pleasure. Arguably his first important body of work that was conceived of and executed as a systematic series, the Bois de Boulogne series would influence his best-known work, the Old Paris photographs.
Commissioned by Paris' agency on historic works (under the aegis of urban planner Georges-Eugène Baron Haussmann), Marville made approximately 425 photographs in the mid-1860s of the narrow streets and crumbling buildings of the modern city at the very moment they were threatened by demolition.
Ten years later, he returned to the same sites where he was again commissioned to photograph the new main roads in order to present Haussmann’s Paris at the Exposition Universelle of 1878.
Charles Marville, Rue du Cygne, Rue Mondatour
Rue de Constantine, Paris, by Charles Marville 1865
Place Gozlin, Paris circa,
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