Typophoto: new typography and the reinvention of photography

Abstract

"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 medium, she demonstrates how photography was used as a tool for manipulating perception as it became a visual language of modern life"-- Provided by publisher.

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.