Building the World's Visual Language: The Increasing Global Importance of Image Banks in Corporate Media

Visual Communication

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 316-336

  Machin, David ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

discourse analysis; electronic images; image banks; multi media; multi modality; photography; semiotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249345608     PISSN: 14703572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470357204045785     Document Type: Article

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