Tag Archives: television

  The idea that fame carried intrinsic power was nurtured in the 1960s as a result of changes in both the film community and the political world, particulary the demise of the studio system and the emergence of actors as independent agents, as well as the rise to dominance of …

  Doisneau did not know the identity of the couple, which remained a mystery until 1992: in that year Denise and Jean-Louis Lavergne made themselves known to the French television and pressed charges against the artist for taking their photograph without their permission. This led Doisneau to explain that the …

  But whatever they have been called, press agents, in the course of their quest to canonize the superficial, have always been small history makers. As have the photographers represented by Globe Photos. These men and women have made a record of movie ant television personalities as they want to …

The picaresque tone, the bewildering dialogues, the appearing and disappearing characters, the clamorous, impudent absence of any narrative structure. A fascinating predilection for mental shifting, for the voluptuousness of sinking, the masochistic pleasure of senseless conversations, which once more place television as the undisputed protagonist, alongside our daily blah blah… …

  THE GLOBE STORY/2 The history of Globe Photos, one of the world’s largest photo agencies, covers six decades, a period of time during which the use of editorial photography in magazines  and newpapers and books and on television has grown and changed dramatically. These changes have been reflected in …