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Adolphe Terris — Renovation of the Old City of Marseille, Rue Caves de l'Oratoire

Adolphe Terris

Renovation of the Old City of Marseille, Rue Caves de l'Oratoire

1862

Documentary photography captures the urban transformation of Marseille during the Second Empire, preserving a vanishing neighborhood through the precise detail possible with wet collodion negatives.

Medium
albumen print from wet collodion negative

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