Eroticism and Photography in 1930s French Magazines

<p>Drawing on a panorama of materials from 1930s France, <i>Eroticism and Photography in 1930s French Magazines </i>takes a new approach to studying a certain type of image from a certain time.</p><p>Previously untapped by historians, magazines such as <em>Paris Magazine</em>, <em>Paris Sex Appeal</em>,<em> Pages Folles</em>,<em> Pour lire à deux</em>, and <em>Scandale</em> are inscribed in the context of the interwar years. They reflect that context through a bawdy style, an audacious and multifaceted aesthetic – from kitsch to modern – and permeability to reproducibility. With a focus on the photographs as components of the magazines’ layout, Alix Agret critically examines their interrelations with texts and graphics without neglecting the history surrounding them, which forms a backdrop to the analyses of this previously unstudied source material. The first study of its kind, this is a timely scholarly contribution to the field of the history of photographs.</p><p>This book will be of interest to scholars in the field of history of photography, French history, and twentieth-century art history.</p> <p>1. Contextualising <em>Paris Magazine </em>2.Reading <em>Paris Magazine </em>3. Watching <em>Paris Magazine </em>4. Consuming <em>Paris Magazine </em>5. The Magazines Colonial Unconscious 6. When Art Meets Erotic Magazines Epilogue</p>