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""A novel interplay between text and image, Typophoto fused--as Jessica D. Brier demonstrates in this insightful account--the interests of advertisers with those of the avant-garde, thus instigating a process that ultimately resulted in the ubiquitous pixelated imagery of our own day.""--Kathleen James-Chakraborty, author of Modernism as Memory: Building Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany ""In this deeply researched book, Jessica D. Brier examines the close relationship between photography, typography, and mass printing in the interwar period, revealing the extent to which this both transformed the landscape of printed matter and the modes of seeing that it engendered. Above all, she highlights the ways new print technologies enabled photography to become the central medium of modernist visual culture. Alongside the key theorists László Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, and Jan Tschichold, she also brings lesser-known artist-designers like Max Burchartz, Johannes Molzahn, and Georg Trump to the forefront, indicating the range and depth of work produced under the banner of Typophoto.""--Paul Stirton, author of Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars

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Jessica D. Brier is curator of photography at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. She is editor of On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print and coeditor of Making a Life in Photography: Rollie McKenna.

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