Charles Marville, The Double Doorway, rue de la Ferronnerie - Getty Museum

The twin arches connecting one side of an old market to a parallel street are pasted with advertisements and playbills. This neighborhood was slated for demolition, according to the plans of Baron Haussmann, who oversaw the restructuring of Paris's principal boulevards and streets. Because this block would soon undergo destruction, it became a subject for Charles Marville's documentation of the changes wrought by urban renewal.

Charles Marville (born Charles François Bossu; 13 March 1813 – 19 October 1879) - French photographer born in Paris was appointed as the official photographer of the city of Paris in the early 1860s. He was one of the first photographers to use albumen printing process, which produced highly detailed and tonally rich prints. He also experimented with salt prints, cyanotype, and platinum prints, 19th-century architecture, and urban landscapes.