Urban Documentation Photography

Urban Documentation is an important thread within the history of photography. It can be understood as a practice of systematically recording changing or disappearing cityscapes, often serving as testimony to modernization. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.

Basic facts
MovementUrban Documentation
Photographers2

Overview

A practice of systematically recording changing or disappearing cityscapes, often serving as testimony to modernization.

Photographers

🇫🇷FR1813–1879
Charles Marville
Documentary
DocumentaryUrban Documentation

Charles Marville began as an illustrator and engraver before turning to photography.

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🇫🇷FR1857–1927
Eugène Atget
Documentary
DocumentaryUrban Documentation

Atget did not take up the camera until around 1897, when he was about forty.

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