Eroticism and Photography in 1930s French Magazines

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Alix Agret

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781350170292
• eBook ISBN: 9781000213577
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: History of Photography
• Index: History

Drawing on a panorama of materials from 1930s France, Eroticism and Photography in 1930s French Magazines takes a new approach to studying a certain type of image from a certain time.

Previously untapped by historians, magazines such as Paris Magazine, Paris Sex Appeal, Pages Folles, Pour lire à deux, and Scandale 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.

This book will be of interest to scholars in the field of history of photography, French history, and twentieth-century art history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Contextualising Paris Magazine
• 2 Reading Paris Magazine
• 3 Watching Paris Magazine
• 4 Consuming Paris Magazine
• 5 The Magazines’ Colonial Unconscious
• 6 When Art Meets Erotic Magazines
• Epilogue
• Appendix
• Selective Bibliography
• Index