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Author Sramek, Peter

Title Piercing Time : Paris After Marville and Atget 1865-2012
Published Bristol : Intellect, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (460 pages)
Contents A Paris Diagonal -- Rephotographic Practices -- Marville Rephotographs Paris: 1865 and 1877 -- Atget and Rephotography -- Methodologies -- Performing the City : Cultural Heritage and Modernity -- Avenue de l'Opéra -- Le Percement de l'avenue de l'Opéra : Charles Marville and the Aesthetics of Ruins / Shalini Le Gall -- Halles, Auxerre -- Constructing Nineteenth-Century Paris through Cartography and Photography / Min Kyung Lee -- Île-de-la-Cité -- Saint-Séverin, Place Maubert -- Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève -- La Bièvre, Rue Monge -- Saint-Marcel, Gobelins -- The Marville Archive -- Technical Notes
Summary Piercing Time examines the role of photography in documenting urban change by juxtaposing contemporary 'rephotographs' taken by the author with images of nineteenth-century Paris taken by Charles Marville, who worked under Georges Haussmann, and corresponding photographs by Eugène Atget taken in the early twentieth century
Notes Print version record
Subject Marville Charles, 1816-approximately 1879
Atget, Eugène, 1857-1927.
SUBJECT Atget, Eugène, 1857-1927 fast
Marville, Charles, 1813-1879 fast
Subject Photography, Artistic.
Street photography -- France -- Paris
art photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions -- General.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Individual Photographers -- Artists' Books.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Photoessays & Documentaries.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
Photography, Artistic
Street photography
Fotografie
Paris.
SUBJECT Paris (France) -- Pictorial works
Subject France -- Paris
Frankreich
Genre/Form Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781783202270
1783202270
9781783202263
1783202262