Piercing Time : Paris After Marville and Atget 1865-2012.

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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.

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.

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