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The magazine as system
The publication as a machine of selection, rhythm, image, and authority.
About this collection
A magazine is rarely analysed as a production system, though it is the system that explains its influence: who selects, at what rhythm it appears, how a spread is built, and why the cover costs more than everything else. This route assembles the mechanics of publishing.
The mechanism
- Magazine Cover — Image as the Interface of an Issue — the cover as the interface of an issue.
- Magazine Spread — The Space Between Two Pages — the space between two pages.
- Editorial Photography — the image as argument.
- Art Direction — Who Designs the Image Before the Shoot — who designs the image before the shoot.
Production
- Desktop Publishing — How the Computer Changed the Magazine — how the computer changed the editorial process.
- Contact Sheet — Photography as a Process of Selection — photography as a process of selection.
- Retouching — From Negative to Digital Image — from negative to digital image.
Publications as cases
- 032c — Berlin Culture, Fashion and the Magazine as a Production System — the magazine as a production system.
- Dazed — Youth Culture, Provocation and the Magazine as a Future Laboratory — provocation and a laboratory of the future.
- Visionaire: The Magazine That Refused to Be a Magazine — a publication that refused to be a magazine.
- A Magazine Is No Longer Paper — what remains of the magazine after paper.
The adjacent format
- Photobook — Sequence Instead of the Single Frame — sequence instead of the single frame.