Picture-Work
How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy
Published on 21. November 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-262-54700-0 (ISBN)
Description
"Argues that our contemporary treatment of the image as a circulating object was forged by three 20th century institutions: the museum, the library, and the stock photography agency"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Illustrations
52 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
405 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-54700-0 (9780262547000)
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11/2023
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Person
Diana Kamin
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: Picture-workers xiii
Introduction: Picture-problems 1
1 Circulating Collection Style: Pictures as Documents at the New York Public Library 25
2 The Museum Without Walls: The Museum of Modern Art and Photography's Double Duty 79
3 "Your Story in Pictures Leaves Nothing Untold": H. Armstrong Roberts and the Rise of American Stock Photography 131
4 The New Universal Collection: From Pictures to Digital Assets 187
Coda: Angels of History 231
Notes 239
Bibliography 279
Index 301
Prologue: Picture-workers xiii
Introduction: Picture-problems 1
1 Circulating Collection Style: Pictures as Documents at the New York Public Library 25
2 The Museum Without Walls: The Museum of Modern Art and Photography's Double Duty 79
3 "Your Story in Pictures Leaves Nothing Untold": H. Armstrong Roberts and the Rise of American Stock Photography 131
4 The New Universal Collection: From Pictures to Digital Assets 187
Coda: Angels of History 231
Notes 239
Bibliography 279
Index 301