Picture Research The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization

• Main Author: Vestberg, Nina Lager (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2023
• Series: Leonardo
• Subjects: Photography & photographs; Museology & heritage studies; IT, Internet & electronic resources in libraries; digitization; disintermediation; intermediation; media history; media work; history of photography; photography archives; photography and business; photo library; picture library; picture research; picture industry
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

An intimate foray into the invisible work that made it possible for pictures to circulate in print and online from the 1830s to the 2010s.Picture Research focuses on how pictures were saved, stored, and searched for in a time before scanners, servers, and search engines, and describes the dramatic d...