Piercing Time

Peter Sramek

Description

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. 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. The book also includes contemporary interviews with local Parisians, extracts from Haussmann’s own writing and historical maps that allow for an intriguing look at the shifting city plan.

Sure to be of interest to lovers of the city, be they Parisians or visitors, Piercing Time provides a unique snapshot of historical changes of the past 150 years. But it will also be of enduring value to scholars. The accurate cataloguing and high quality reproductions of the images make it a resource for a significant portion of the Marville collection in the Musée Carnavalet, and it will aid further research in urban history and change in Paris over the past century and a half. Photographers will be drawn to the book for its new thinking in relation to documentary methodologies.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

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

Ile-de-la-Cité

Saint-Séverin - Place Maubert

Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève

La Bièvre - Rue Monge

Saint-Marcel - Gobelins

The Marville Archive

Technical Notes

Bibliography

Indexes

Sujets

• Película fotográfica
• Reference
• History of art
• Performance art
• Photography
• History of film
• Cultural Studies
• Film
• Architecture
• Culture cinématographique

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783202263
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 148 Mo

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Peter Sramek wit essays by Min Kyung Lee and Salini Le Gall

1865 1907 2009

Piercing Time: Paris After Marville and Atget 1865-2012

IntellectBristol, UK / Chicago, USA

PiercingTime: Paris After Marville andAtget

1865-2012

Peter Sramek wit essays by Min Kyung Lee and Salini Le Gall

Piercing Time: Paris After Marville and Atget 1865-2012

First publised in te UK in 2013 by Intellect, he Mill, Parnall Road, Fisponds, Bristol, BS16 3JG, UK

First publised in te USA in 2013 by Intellect, he University of Cicago Press, 1427 E. 60t Street, Cicago, IL 60637, USA

Copyrigt © 2013 Intellect Ltd

Contemporary potograps © 2013 Peter Sramek Historical potograps licenced from teir respective institutions and agents All texts copyrigt of te respective autors All rigts reserved. No part of tis publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mecanical, potocopying, recording, or oterwise, witout written permission.

A catalogue record for tis book is available from te Britis Library

Cover image: Peter Sramek, Rue de l’Arbalète, 2009.

Cover designer: Antony Gerace Copy-editor: Heater Owen Design: Peter Sramek Production manager: Tim Mitcell

Print ISBN (HB): 978-1-78320-033-7 Print ISBN (PB): 978-1-78320-032-0 ePDF ISBN: 978-1-78320-227-0 ePUB ISBN: 978-1-78320-226-3

Printed and bound by: Gomer Press Ltd, UK.

his project was produced wit te generous assistance of te Musée Carnavalet and Parisienne de Potograpie/Agence Roger-Viollet.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction

A Paris Diagonal Repotograpic Practices  Marville Repotograps Paris: 1865 and 1877  Atget and Repotograpy  Metodologies Performing te City Cultural Heritage and Modernity

Avenue de l’Opéra

Le Percement de l’avenue de l’Opéra Carles Marville and te Aestetics of Ruins – Salini Le Gall

Halles  Auxerre

Constructing Nineteent-Century Paris troug Cartograpy and Potograpy – Min Kyung Lee

IledelaCité

SaintSéverin  Place Maubert

MontagneSainteGeneviève

La Bièvre  Rue Monge

SaintMarcel  Gobelins

he Marville Arcive Tecnical Notes Bibliograpy Indexes  Potograps by Carles Marville  Potograps by Eugène Atget  Cartograpy and Illustrations  Locations

About te Autors Potograpy Credits

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Fig. 1.Atlas Administratif des 20 Arrondissements de la Ville de Paris, publié d’après les ordres de M. le baron G.E. Haussmann, Sénateur, Préfet de la Seine. 1868.Musée Carnavalet.