[Construction Site], 1880s, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Image: 36.8 x 47.8 cm (14 1/2 x 18 13/16 in.), Photographs, Louis Lafon (French, active 1870s–90s), The urbanization projects of nineteenth-century France called on photography to record not only the ornamental details of a building’s exterior but also the progression of its construction. Lafon mastered this type of industrial imagery, a pursuit for which he was awarded a medal at the 1874 exhibition of the Société française de photographie
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