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Factory Photo-Books: The Self-Representation of the Factory in Photographic Publications

Factory Photo-Books: The Self-Representation of the Factory in Photographic Publications

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ISBN10: 9056628704
ISBN13: 9789056628703
Publisher: Nai010 Publishers
Published: Mar 26 2024
Pages: 506
Weight: 5.20
Height: 1.50 Width: 9.60 Depth: 11.40
Language: English

Behind the scenes of industrial publishing how factories used photo books to market themselves to potential clients

Massive industrial halls, dirty overalls, spinning gears and smoking chimneys: Factory Photo-Books: The Self-Representation of the Factory in Photographic Publications is the definitive overview of an extraordinary genre spanning from 1890 to 1987. From the invention of the medium, businesses recognized the power of photography as a marketing tool. Companies commissioned photobooks in order to showcase their quality, innovativeness and progressiveness. The books went out into the world as promotional gifts for clients, investors, local public figures and employees. Meanwhile, factories themselves created promotional photobooks to extol their own production value and recruit new business. These gigantic centers for production employed designers, printers and photographers at the top of their field, including Margaret Bourke-White, Piet Zwart, Bruno Munari, Alvin Langdon Coburn, André Kertész, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Jacob Tuggener, Robert Doisneau, Paul Schuitema, Jurriaan Schrofer and Eugenio Carmi. The ambition to portray the firms in unique ways often led to amazing experiments with book forms, photography and graphic design.

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