Études Photographiques: Issue 24

Softcover | 16 x 1.6 x 24.5 cm | 224 pp

Société Française de Photographie | 2009 | 9782911961243 

Text in English and French

Since 1996, with contributions by noted scholars, the peer-reviewed journal Études Photographiques, has been leading the way in providing academics and the arts community access to the most current research on photography, the history of photography and visual culture.

CONTENTS:

Funding a Photographic Elite: Nineteenth-century Photographic Societies 
and the Financing of Photography as a Mark of Social Distinction 

Putting the European Avant-garde to Work for Capitalism: Walter P Paepcke 
and the Alliance of Art and Business in the United States (1930-t950) 

From Empire to Marketplace: Agfa and the Rebuilding of the German Photography Industry after 1945  

On the Darkroom 

East: The History of a Corporate Commission and the History of a Region 

From the Picture Archive to the Image Bank. Commercialising the Visual 
through Photography: The Bettmann Archive and Corbis 

Shared Images, How the lnternet Has Transformed the Image Economy