Drawing on a panorama of materials from 1930s France, Eroticism and Photography in 1930s French Magazines takes a new approach to studying a certain type of image from a certain time.
Previously untapped by historians, magazines such as Paris Magazine, Paris Sex Appeal, Pages Folles, Pour lire à deux, and Scandale are inscribed in the context of the interwar years. They reflect that context through a bawdy style, an audacious and multifaceted aesthetic – from kitsch to modern – and permeability to reproducibility. With a focus on the photographs as components of the magazines’ layout, Alix Agret critically examines their interrelations with texts and graphics without neglecting the history surrounding them, which forms a backdrop to the analyses of this previously unstudied source material. The first study of its kind, this is a timely scholarly contribution to the field of the history of photographs.
This book will be of interest to scholars in the field of history of photography, French history, and twentieth-century art history.
Previously untapped by historians, magazines such as Paris Magazine, Paris Sex Appeal, Pages Folles, Pour lire à deux, and Scandale are inscribed in the context of the interwar years. They reflect that context through a bawdy style, an audacious and multifaceted aesthetic – from kitsch to modern – and permeability to reproducibility. With a focus on the photographs as components of the magazines’ layout, Alix Agret critically examines their interrelations with texts and graphics without neglecting the history surrounding them, which forms a backdrop to the analyses of this previously unstudied source material. The first study of its kind, this is a timely scholarly contribution to the field of the history of photographs.
This book will be of interest to scholars in the field of history of photography, French history, and twentieth-century art history.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781350170292
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-350-17029-2
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Erscheinungstermin: 31.10.2022
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2022
- Serie: Routledge History of Photography
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 1180 g
- Seiten: 256
- Format (B x H x T): 252 x 179 x 20 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt