Routledge studies in business organizations and networks ;
Volume Designation
31
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. Introduction -- 2. The study of markets -- 3. An overview of the fashion photography business -- 4. Fashion photographers as producers -- 5. The consumers of fashion photographers -- 6. The two markets for fashion photography -- 7. Towards a phenomenological sociology.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Interest in contemporary cultural industries has grown in the past decade, as they take on a greater significance in our increasingly consumer-led society. Focusing on the world of fashion photography, this book presents an interdisciplinary approach in which this and other aesthetic markets, such as advertising, modelling, art, music and more, can be viewed.The main thrust of this groundbreaking book, is in developing a theory for these cultural markets, characterized by insecurity, and where status and aesthetic diversity generate order and price differentiation. In these industrie.