Parisian views / Shelley Rice.

Main entry:

Rice, Shelley, author.

Title & Author:

Parisian views / Shelley Rice.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [1997]
©1997

Description:

xx, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-254) and index.
Introduction : time zones -- Parisian views -- Still points in a turning world -- On camels and cathedrals -- Souvenirs -- Voyages without steam or sail : afterimages from the floating head.

Summary:

During the Second Empire (1852-1870), Baron Haussmann and Emperor Napoleon III reconstructed Paris into the "City of Light" we know today. The government and other public institutions commissioned many photographers - among them Charles Marville, Henri Le Secq, Edouard-Denis Baldus, and Gustave Le Gray - to record the old Parisian architecture and to document the demolition and reconstruction. In Parisian Views, Shelley Rice explores not only the literal connections between photography and the transformation of Paris but also the metaphorical ones.
Each of the book's essays is in itself a "Parisian view." The fragmented, layered quality of the text allows the author to avoid making a linear narrative out of a subject that is enriched by multiple perspectives. Yet all of the essays revolve around a central theme: the creation of modern urban space, in both two and three dimensions, and the impact of this space on the lives of those who walked the streets of Paris of the nineteenth century.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0262181843 (alk. paper)
9780262181846 (alk. paper)
9780262681070
0262681072

Subject:

Haussmann, Georges Eugène, baron, 1809-1891.
Haussmann, Georges Eugène, Baron Contributions in urban renewal
Haussmann, Georges Eugène Baron 1809-1891
Paris, Giovanni 1747-
Haussmann, Georges Eugène, (1809-1891)
Haussmann, Georges Eugène.
Photography France Paris History 19th century.
Photographie France Paris Histoire 19e siècle.
Photography
Bildband
Fotografie
Stadtsanierung
Städtebau
Photographie France Paris (France) 19e siècle.
Paris (France) History 1848-1870.
Paris (France) Histoire 1848-1870.
France Paris
Paris
Paris (France) 1848-1870.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 191799
Call No.: ID TR72.P37.R53; ID:97-B2816
Status: Available

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