City : Charles Marville

Charles Marville

Paris before and after Haussmann:

The images below are from an article is 'The Figaro Magazine'. They Have combined old images that were taken by Charles Marville and new images taken of the same area by modern photographers. The article is about the rebuilding of Paris after the damage done since the revolution in 1789. The French civil planner Haussmann was hired by Napoleon III to modernize Paris and make it it a safer, cleaner and more appealing place city. I felt that these images were the most relevant out of all of those that I have researched as they actually pastiche images of areas in the capital city that were once destroyed. This has been done here to show the development and improvement of the city after Haussmann. 

The image above is of the street Soufflot in 1877 .  The first image was taken by Charles Marville and the second the editions of the Mécène and Gilles Leimdorfer for The Figaro Magazine. The second image is an accurate pastiche of the first and this is what I am hoping to achieve in my project. The development of the city can been seen by choosing an original image of a destroyed area which is also what I have chosen to do.

These image were taken by the same photographers and are taken in the same way just in a different area. They have also chosen to show development by having the more modern image in colour. I am undecided if this is what i would like to do as I may wish to pastiche the image as close to the original as possible including it being in black and white.