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>