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