Download or read book Directory of World Cinema Britain 2 written by Neil Mitchell and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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