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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Phillips, David Clayton. "Art for Industry's Sake: Halftone Technology, Mass Photography, and the Social Transformation of American Print Culture, 1880-1920," American Studies Program, Yale University, March 1996.
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary history of the development of the technology, economy, work and art of “mass photography” (i.e. photography in print) by American publishers, advertisers, and photojournalists through the early-twentieth century. It outlines the process of capital consolidation and rationalization in American publishing industry; it investigates the origins and development of the work of professional modelling; it explores the early use of the techniques of photo-retouching and realism by commercial illustrators; and it tells the story of how the television revolution of the 1950s was built atop the cultural and commercial structures that American publishers had built in print through the first half of the twentieth century.
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