The mass image : a social history of photomechanical reproduction in Victorian London

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    • Beegan, Gerry

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The mass image : a social history of photomechanical reproduction in Victorian London

Gerry Beegan

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

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Bibliography: p 273-290

Includes index

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The Mass Image situates the creation of the first photographically illustrated magazines within the social relations of the emerging popular culture of late Victorian London. It demonstrates how photomechanical reproduction allowed the illustrated press to envisage modern life on a much more intense scale than ever before.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Mass Reproduction and the Mass Audience Imaging the City: London and the Media in the 1890s Wood Engraving: Facsimile and Fragmentation Process Reproduction and the Image Assembly Line The Illustration of the Everyday The Photograph on the Page Learning to Read the Halftone Bibliography

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