Photography Inc.
Your Image is Our Business
Published on 6. January 2016
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-94-014-3000-5 (ISBN)
Description
Photography Inc., is the comprehensive catalogue based on the FotoMuseum's Autumn exhibition with the same name, in Antwerp. The book charts the history of photography, from the perspective of the photography industry, with pictures, cameras and albums from the FoMu collection.
Since the 19th century, photography has evolved from a luxury article to a mass-produced article. That development is what Photography Inc. illustrates. Photography continually needs to become faster, simpler, and cheaper, which has far-reaching consequences - both from an aesthetic point of view and from a social one. This book focuses on a number of milestones in the history of photography, and upon the influence companies such as Gevaert, Agfa, Kodak, Polaroid etc. have had on the approach of both amateur and professional photographers.
Text in English and Dutch.
Since the 19th century, photography has evolved from a luxury article to a mass-produced article. That development is what Photography Inc. illustrates. Photography continually needs to become faster, simpler, and cheaper, which has far-reaching consequences - both from an aesthetic point of view and from a social one. This book focuses on a number of milestones in the history of photography, and upon the influence companies such as Gevaert, Agfa, Kodak, Polaroid etc. have had on the approach of both amateur and professional photographers.
Text in English and Dutch.
More details
Language
Dutch
English
Place of publication
Tielt
Belgium
Illustrations
50 Illustrations, black and white; 250 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 210 mm
Weight
1250 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-014-3000-5 (9789401430005)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Tamara Berghman is an art historian and Collection Curator at the FoMu. Sandra Janssens is Curator Equipment at theFoMu. A.D. Coleman is an American photography critic. Paul Messier is an American photo restorer, who has worked for theMoMA and the Getty Conservation Institute.