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Peter Sramek - Piercing Time - 9781783200337 - V9781783200337
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Piercing Time

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Description for Piercing Time Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 456 pages, 300 colour plates, 210 halftones, 22 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; AJB; AJC; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 224 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1938.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Intellect Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
456
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
1937g
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783200337
SKU
V9781783200337
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About Peter Sramek
Peter Sramek has taught at the OCAD University in Toronto since 1976.

Reviews for Piercing Time
'This is an interesting and entertaining book that complements Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project (CH, Apr'OO, 37-4262). Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers.'
Choice, B. P. Chalifour 'A handsome and hefty volume' 
Prefix Photo, Andrea Picard

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