Diana Kamin

Picture-Work

How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy

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Produktbeschreibung

"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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780262547000
• ISBN-10: 0262547007
• Artikelnr.: 68431337

Autorenporträt

Diana Kamin is Advanced Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University in New York. Her research has been published in Information & Culture, Journal of Visual Culture, and Artforum, among other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

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