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Description of  Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy (History and Foundations of Information Science)

How the image collection, organized and made available for public consumption, came to define a key feature of contemporary visual culture. The origins of todays kaleidoscopic digital visual culture are many. In this book, Diana Kamin traces the sharing of photographs to an image economy developed throughout the twentieth century by major institutions. Read more