The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929
Hardcover
2005 · Baltimore and London
by Brown, Elspeth H.
Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Hardcover. VG- (Ex-art library, with spine label, i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages, some scuffs to covers; otherwise clean.). Siena cloth, brown and illus. dust jacket in mylar cover, 334 pp.. BW illus. "This imaginative study ... examines the intersection of photography as a mass technology with corporate concerns about efficiency in the Progressive period. Discussing the work of, among others, Frederick W. Taylor, Eadweard Muybridge, Frank Gilbreth, and Lewis Hine, Brown explroes this intersection through a variety of examples, including racial discrimination in hiring, the problem of photographic realism, and the gendered assumptions at work in the origins of modern marketing." (dj). (Inventory #: 159539)