@article{706071,
      note = {"Hardcover edition copublished by The University of  Chicago Press"--Title page verso.},
      author = {Mondenard, Anne de, and Barberie, Peter, and Reynaud,  Françoise, and Wolf, Joke de, and Kennel, Sarah, and  Marville, Charles,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/706071},
      title = {Charles Marville : photographer of Paris /},
      abstract = {"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"-- Provided by publisher.},
      recid = {706071},
      pages = {xi, 265 pages :},
}