IPHF Lecture with Professor David R. Hanlon

Many of the techniques and aesthetic approaches to urban and topographic photography that we use today have their origins in the early images that were being created, printed, and disseminated in Paris in the early 1850s. This discussion will show how Charles Marville’s work – and those of some of his colleagues – reflect the growth of these ideas, as photography’s multiple facets start to be explored. This presentation will be illustrated primarily through a large set of recently discovered early photographic prints that now reside in the Library of Congress.