French Erotic Photographs: Indecent Modernity in 1930s Magazines

By Alix Agret

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 ? 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350170291
• ISBN13: 9781350170292
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.7"