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The image factory : consumer culture, photography and the visual content industry / Paul Frosh.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New technologies/new cultures seriesPublisher: Oxford : Berg, 2003Edition: First editionDescription: x, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1859736378
  • 9781859736371
  • 1859736424
  • 9781859736425
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 659.1042 22
LOC classification:
  • HD9708.A2 F76 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction: The Making of Ordinary Images -- 2. From the Library to the Bank: The Emergence of Stock Photography -- 3. Shooting for Success: Stock Photography and the Production of Culture -- 4. The Archive, the Stereotype and the Image-Repertoire: Classification and Stock Photography -- 5. The Image of Romance: Stock Images as Cultural Performances -- 6. Rhetorics of the Overlooked: The Communicative Modes of Stock Images -- 7. And God Created Photoshop: Digital Technologies, Creative Mastery and Aesthetic Angst -- 8. The Realm of the Info-Pixel: From Stock Photography to the Visual Content Industry -- 9. Epilogue.
Summary: This title exposes the interior workings of the visual content industry, which produces approximately 70 per cent of the images that define consumer cultures. It combines original research on stock photography with a theoretical take on the circulation of images in contemporary culture.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 659.1042 FRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A297268B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 659.1042 FRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A322689B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: The Making of Ordinary Images -- 2. From the Library to the Bank: The Emergence of Stock Photography -- 3. Shooting for Success: Stock Photography and the Production of Culture -- 4. The Archive, the Stereotype and the Image-Repertoire: Classification and Stock Photography -- 5. The Image of Romance: Stock Images as Cultural Performances -- 6. Rhetorics of the Overlooked: The Communicative Modes of Stock Images -- 7. And God Created Photoshop: Digital Technologies, Creative Mastery and Aesthetic Angst -- 8. The Realm of the Info-Pixel: From Stock Photography to the Visual Content Industry -- 9. Epilogue.

This title exposes the interior workings of the visual content industry, which produces approximately 70 per cent of the images that define consumer cultures. It combines original research on stock photography with a theoretical take on the circulation of images in contemporary culture.

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