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Paris and the cliché of history : the city and photographs, 1860-1970 /

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This book turns a compelling new lens on thinking about the history of Paris and photography. The invention of photography changed how history could be written. But the now commonplace assumptions, that photographs capture fragments of lost time or present emotional gateways to the past, that struct...

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Main Author: Clark, Catherine E. (Catherine Eleanor), 1982- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Paris (France) > History > 19th century.
Paris (France) > History > 20th century.
Paris (France) > In art.
Art and history.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Paris, photography, and history: 1860 to 1970
  • Imagination and evidence: visual history at Paris's municipal historical institutions
  • Index and time: new forms and theories in photohistories
  • Past and present: "repicturing" during the occupation and liberation of Paris
  • Style and subjectivity: the Bimillénaire de Paris and the Parisian cliché
  • "C'était Paris en 1970": amateur photography and the assassination of Paris
  • Conclusion: looking back, looking forward: the vidéothèque de Paris.