The image factory: consumer culture, photography and the visual content industry

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Abstract

Quietly but implacably, powerful transnational corporations are gaining power over our visual world. A 'global, visual content industry' increasingly controls images supplied to advertisers, marketers and designers, yet so far the process has, parado xically, evaded the public eye. This book is the first to expose the interior workings of the visual content industry, which produces approximately 70% of the images that define consumer cultures. The corporate acquisition of major photographic and f ilm archives, as well as the digital rights to much of the worlds fine art, is having a profound e.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationOxford, UK
PublisherBerg
Number of pages237
ISBN (Print)1845206282, 1859736378, 1859736424, 9781845206284, 9781859736371, 9781859736425
StatePublished - 2003

Publication series

NameNew technologies new culures
PublisherBerg

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