The Image Factory : Consumer Culture, Photography and the Visual Content Industry
Paul. Frosh
Bok Engelsk 2003 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Oxford : : Berg Publishers, , 2003.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (248 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction The Making of Ordinary Images; From the Library to the Bank: The Emergence of Stock Photography; Shooting for Success: Stock Photography and the Production of Culture; The Archive, the Stereotype and the Image- Repertoire Classification and Stock Photography; The Image of Romance: Stock Images as Cultural Performances; Rhetorics of the Overlooked: The Communicative Modes of Stock Images; Creative Mastery and Aesthetic Angst; Photography to the Visual Content Industry; Epilogue; Sources and Bibliography; Index. - Quietly but implacably, powerful transnational corporations are gaining power over our visual world. A 'global, visual content industry' increasingly controls images supplied to advertisers, marketers and designers, yet so far the process has, parado xically, evaded the public eye. This book is the first to expose the interior workings of the visual content industry, which produces approximately 70% of the images that define consumer cultures. The corporate acquisition of major photographic and f ilm archives, as well as the digital rights to much of the worlds fine art, is having a profound e
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| ISBN | 1859736378. - 1859736424
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