Piercing Time : Paris After Marville and Atget 1865-2012

460 Pages·2013·51.95 MB·English

by  Atget

Explore the ‘psychogeography’ of old Paris, traveling from the Opéra to Place d’Italie and examine the city captured by Charles Marville at the time of the P
Haussmann reconfi gurations. Original nineteenth-century images are juxtaposed with recent photographs taken by Peter Sramek, who visits the sites of i
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Marville’s photographs with a large format camera, discovering a changing urban landscape and refl ecting on attitudes towards the city. Th e concept of the r
city as a psychological, social and political construct is examined through a number of essays, along with consideration of rephotography as a method of c
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photographic documentation. Read too how today’s Parisians feel about their city and, with the addition of historical maps and photographs by Eugène n
Atget which record the same sites in the early 1900s, delve into the complex web of development that underlies the surface of modern-day Paris. g

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‘My interest lies partly in the history of cities themselves, but more than that, in how cities come i
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to embody cultural history and represent the cultural past in people’s imaginations.’ Peter Sramek
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Peter Sramek has been a photographic artist and educator for over forty years. His work has focused on the cultural signifi cance of historical and touristic

sites, currently with an emphasis on the representation of cities. He is a Canadian, though much of his work has been made in Europe: France, Czech Republic, P
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Italy and Germany. He specializes in black and white, fi lm-based and panoramic photography.
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Piercing Time: Paris After Marville and Atget 1865-2012
Intellect Bristol, UK / Chicago, USA
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Piercing Time:
Paris After
Marville
and Atget
1865-2012
Peter Sramek
with essays by
Min Kyung Lee and Shalini Le Gall
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Piercing Time: Paris After Marville and Atget 1865-2012
First published in the UK in 2013 by
Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 3JG, UK
First published in the USA in 2013 by
Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Copyright © 2013 Intellect Ltd
Contemporary photographs © 2013 Peter Sramek
Historical photographs licenced from their respective institutions and agents
All texts copyright of the respective authors
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval
system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
recording, or otherwise, without written permission.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Cover image: Peter Sramek, Rue de l’Arbalète, 2009.
Cover designer: Anthony Gerace
Copy-editor: Heather Owen
Design: Peter Sramek
Production manager: Tim Mitchell
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.
This project was produced with the generous assistance of
the Musée Carnavalet and Parisienne de Photographie/Agence Roger-Viollet.
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Table of Contents
7 Acknowledgements
8 Introduction
10 A Paris Diagonal
14 Rephotographic Practices
16 Marville Rephotographs Paris: 1865 and 1877
19 Atget and Rephotography
20 Methodologies
24 Performing the City
Cultural Heritage and Modernity
30 Avenue de l’Opéra
56 Le Percement de l’avenue de l’Opéra
Charles Marville and the Aesthetics of Ruins – Shalini Le Gall
64 Halles - Auxerre
100 Constructing Nineteenth-Century Paris through Cartography
and Photography – Min Kyung Lee
158 Ile-de-la-Cité
176 Saint-Séverin - Place Maubert
242 Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève
320 La Bièvre - Rue Monge
390 Saint-Marcel - Gobelins
432 The Marville Archive
436 Technical Notes
437 Bibliography
Indexes
438 Photographs by Charles Marville
443 Photographs by Eugène Atget
445 Cartography and Illustrations
446 Locations
451 About the Authors
453 Photography 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.
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