Kennel, S: Charles Marville Photographer of Paris

"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-Francois 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