Carrière aux Sables de Macherin, Eugène Cuvelier, 1863
Carrière aux Sables de Macherin, 1863, Salted paper print from paper negative, x cm (7 13/16 x 10 3/16 in. ), Photographs, Eugène Cuvelier (French, 1837–1900), The granite quarries at the edge of Fontainebleau Forest, on the Arbonne plane near Macherin, provided cobblestones for the new boulevards of Paris in the 1850s and 1860s. Here, the piles of freshly cut stone look more like the ruins of a past civilization in a barren landscape beneath a foreboding sky than the building blocks of an emerging imperial capital
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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
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