| Eroticism and Photography in 1930s French Magazines: Risqué Shop Windows Contributor(s): Agret, Alix (Author) |
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ISBN: 1350170291 ISBN-13: 9781350170292 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2022 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - France - Photography | Criticism - Photography | History |
| Dewey: 779.280 |
| LCCN: 2022020869 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.93" W x 9.69" (1.65 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drawing on a panorama of materials from 1930s France, French Erotic Photographs takes a new approach to studying a certain type of image from a certain type of time. Previously untapped by historians, magazines such as Paris Magazine, Paris Sex Appeal, Pages Folles, Pour lire deux and Scandale are inscribed in the context of the interwar years. They reflect that context through a bawdy style, audacious and multifaceted aesthetic - from kitsch to moderns - and a permeability to reproducibility. With a focus on the photographs as components of the magazines' layout, Alix Agret critically examines their interrelations with texts and graphic, 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 field of the history of photographs. |
