Picture-Work
How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
19 December 2023
Summary
The origins of today’s kaleidoscopic digital visual culture are many. In this book, Diana Kamin traces the sharing of photographs to an image economy developed throughout the twentieth century by major institutions. Picture-Work examines how three of these institutions—the New York Public Library, the Museum of Modern Art, and the stock agency H. Armstrong Roberts Inc.—defined the public’s understanding of what the photographic image is, while building vast collections with universal…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262547000 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262547007 |
| Author: | Diana Kamin |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 19 December 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | History and Foundations of Information Science |
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Critics Review
“Kamin offers readers a compelling, trustworthy, and detailed story about how photographic imprints and images in general are made and remade… This is a book well worth reading, even to someone who never bothers to take pictures of anything.”
—CHOICE
“The close but strongly contextualized reading of the picture-workers’ philosophy as well as achievements is an important contribution to our thinking on photography…. Finally, this outstandingly well written book –a real page-turner!– challenges the idea that digital culture is an absolute novelty: many problems, procedures, obstacles, achievements of the digital circulation of pictures were already known and addressed by picture-workers during the analog era…”
—Leonardo Reviews
Diana Kamin
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.
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