Thérèse Bonney and the Power of Global Syndicated Photography

(under contract with the University of California Press)

Thérèse Bonney had a prolific career as a photographer, collector, curator, journalist, and American spy, taking approximately 50,000 photos on such diverse topics as modernist art, high fashion, women supporting the war, concentration camps, and Nazi-looted art. Through her innovative syndication business—the Bonney Service—she dispersed photos taken in nineteen countries to a global market of thirty-three nations. And yet, her legacy has been reduced to a handful of images and without the lens of the Service to explain her importance to news photography. Through her newly processed archive, the book reconsiders Bonney to produce a full account of her as an intellectual authority on art, culture, and technology.

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Thérèse Bonney, the Bonney Service, and the Business of Syndicated Photography, 1923–1945