11/5/2022 0 Comments Footlight skor lund![]() This two-day discussion revisits paradigmatic cases of magazine histories in Europe and the United States. Our analytic point of departure is that illustrated magazines took shape as a rich ecosystem of multi-media representation, and provided an important transactional frame where artists, authors, advertisers and readers coalesced into communities not just through printed text, graphic work and image, but also, and most especially, through photography. At our workshop Print Matters, we are encouraging participants to address this lacuna by exploring a fundamental question: how do we isolate and define the illustrated periodical as an object of research? In approaching this question, we have encouraged studies that explore the magazine as a physical object and, in turn, a complex cultural artefact firmly embedded in any one location and time. ![]() Despite such potent omnipresence, however, we have yet to devise a method for studying this plenitude of mass-printed matter that foregrounded the photograph so powerfully. As the Internet does today, the illustrated magazine significantly defined a global visual knowledge of the world. Unlike the single prints from which it was heavily drawn, the illustrated magazine was a broadly expansive and alluring amalgam that regularly arrived on private doorsteps and local kiosks before spilling into the everyday lives of consumers of goods and politics. Instead they were presented in carefully edited sequences, set cheek-by-jowl against other photographic series, and placed into the integrated company of text and graphic work. ![]() These pictures rarely surfaced as autonomous entities, set off from their paginated context as the sort of discrete objects that generally figure in our standard histories of photography. Print Matters: Histories of Photography in Illustrated Magazines April 8-9, 2016 New York Public Library Convened by: The Developing Room at the Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University the Photography Collection, New York Public Library and the Department of Art and Art History, Hunter College, CUNY Maria Antonella Pelizzari (Hunter College, CUNY) Andrés Mario Zervigón (Rutgers University) Between 19, the vast majority of photographs printed and consumed around the world appeared on the pages of illustrated magazines. ![]()
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