Before Google Street View and 'Pegman' there was Charles Marville, a 19th-century photographer who was commissioned by the city of Paris to document both the picturesque, medieval streets of old Paris and the broad boulevards and grand public structures that Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann built in their place for Emperor Napoleon III.
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| Charles Marville: Place Saint-André-des-Arts (sixth arrondissement), 1865–1868, Musée Carnavalet, Paris |
Read more over at the New York Times and The New York Review of Books
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