Main entry:

Sramek, Peter.

Title & Author:

Piercing time : Paris after Marville and Atget 1865-2012 / Peter Sramek ; with essays by Min Kyung Lee and Shalini Le Gall.

Publication:

Bristol : Intellect ; Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Pr., 2013.
©2013

Description:

576 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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'Opera -- Le Percement de l'avenue de l'Opera Charles Marville and the Aesthetics of Ruins -- Shalini Le Gall -- Halles -- Auxerre -- Constructing Nineteenth-Century Paris through Cartography and Photography -- Min Kyung Lee -- Ile-de-la-Cite -- Saint-Severin -- Place Maubert -- Montagne-Sainte-Genevieve -- La Bievre -- 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 Eugene Atget taken in the early twentieth century. Revisiting the sites of Marville's photographs with a black cloth, tripod, and view camera, Peter Sramek creates here a visually stunning book that investigates how urban development, the use of photography as a documentary medium, and the representation of urban space reflect attitudes towards the city. The essays that run alongside these fascinating images discuss subjects such as the aesthetics of ruins and the documentation of the demolitions that preceded Haussmannization, as well as the different approaches taken by Marville and Atget to their work.

ISBN:

1783200324 (pbk.)
9781783200320 (pbk.)
1783200332 (Cloth)
9781783200337 (Cloth)

Subject:

Marville, Charles, 1813-1879.
Atget, Eugène, 1857-1927.
Atget, Eugène 1856-1927
Marville, Charles 1813-1879
Photography, Artistic.
Street photography France Paris.
Photographie artistique.
Photographie de rue France Paris.
art photography.
Street photography
Fotografie
Streetphotography
Paris
Photography.
Paris (France) Pictorial works.
France Paris

Form/genre:

Illustrated works

Added entries:

Paris after Marville and Atget 1865-2012

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284526
Call No.: BIB 223503
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available