trained as painter, engraver, illustrator
little known about Marville until 1850s
1851 - appointed official photographer at the Louvre
1851-54 - publishes calotype photographs of churches and other sites with Blanquart-Evard
1858 - appointed Official Photographer of Paris; switches to wet-plate collodian process; begins photographing new construction in Paris
1866 - hired by city of Paris to document neighborhoods slated for demolition under Haussmannization; produces 425 images on mammoth (51 x 61 cm, 20 x 24 inches) plates
Italy, Germany, Algeria (before 1850)
Thézy, Marie de. Charles Marville: Photographs of Paris at the Time of the Second Empire on Loan from the Musée Carnavalet, Paris. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Alliance française, 1981