Typophoto : new typography and the reinvention of photography /

"Jessica D. Brier positions Typophoto as an analytical framework for considering how photography-as process, image, material, and metaphor-was reconceived through the professionalization of graphic design. Tracing Typophoto from its inception through New Typography's experiments with the m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brier, Jessica D. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2025]
Subjects:	Graphic arts > History > 20th century. Art and photography > History > 20th century. Photography > Philosophy. Communication in art > Philosophy. Arts graphiques > Histoire > 20e siècle. Art et photographie > Histoire > 20e siècle. Communication dans l'art > Philosophie.

Table of Contents:

Photographic language : a genealogy of typophoto, 1923-1928
The motivation of form : defining legibility in perceptual psychology
Typophoto and the new photomontage, 1928-1933
Too much and too little : photographic halftones, bare and retouched
Typophoto and the professionalization of graphic design : Munich Meisterschule für Deutschlands Buchdrucker, 1927-1932.