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Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Andrés Mario Zervigón - Print Matters, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Print Matters

Media and Modernity in Illustrated Magazines, 1910-1970

Av Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Andrés Mario Zervigón

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In the early to mid-twentieth century, the vast majority of printed photographs appeared in the pages of illustrated magazines. Publications such as Life, China Pictorial, Drum, Picture Post, and Ebony did more than showcase photographs; they crafted visual narratives by combining images, text, and graphics into influential cultural artifacts. These periodicals shaped public perception and mass media consensus like the Internet does today, bringing a shared visual experience to homes and newsstands around the world.The essays in this volume delve into the technologies and visual strategies behind these publications, showing how their layouts were affected by political, commercial, editorial, and artistic factors leading up to World War II. The commentaries also explore how democracy, dictatorships, colonization, and modernity at large gave rise to experimental magazine designs, turning avant-garde art and lifestyle reporting into popular formats. Featuring over 150 images, Print Matters traces how illustrated magazines evolved across countries and continents, offering new insights into their history and enduring impact on culture and society.
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Maria Antonella Pelizzari is a professor of the history of photography in the Department of Art and Art History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, the City University of New York.Andres Mario Zervigon is a professor of the history of photography in the Department of Art History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

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As the editor of VU once declared, photography was invented twice:first by Daguerre and Niepce and then, a century later, by the illustratedmagazine. This wonderful volume investigates this second invention infascinating detail, offering a global perspective on the development of amultilayered, multimedia vehicle in which the photographic image is combinedwith text and graphics to both celebrate and mediate the everyday experience ofmodernity. Featuring essays by a panoply of stellar scholars, this is a bookthat everyone must have on their shelf.- Geoffrey Batchen, Professor of History of Art, University ofOxfordPrint Matters is a brilliant collection of essays exploring how theillustrated magazine in the twentieth century became one of the key media forshaping the everyday experience of modernity for citizens around the world. Theessays in this wonderfully illustrated volume demonstrate with panache how theamalgamation of photography, text, and graphic design in the many magazinesthat appeared in the last century both reflected and formed global forms ofmodernity. With essays skilfully analysing magazines from Europe and the UnitedStates to China, Vietnam, and South Africa, this is an essential volume for allthose interested in modern print culture.— Professor Andrew Thacker, Department of English, NottinghamTrent University

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