정보전달자로서의 사진편집자의 역할에 관한 연구 -단행본 디자인을 중심으로- = A Study on Photo Editor`s Roles as An Information Messenger - Focusing on Separate Volume Designs-

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Current environment surrounding books was remarkably changing. The publication culture was switching gigantic paradigm. For instance, the culture was switching from letters to images, from paper to e-book, from the real thing to cyber space, from printing culture to computer culture, from book culture to Internet, and from readers to netizens. People were living in the era of new media that everything rapidly made change. New media firstly indicated multimedia computer, and people lived lives among a lot of media: For instance, movies, video, advertisement, newspapers and magazines, etc became powerful media enough to govern and control our daily lives. Readers pursued individual and professional life styles: When the publication media failed to make change itself to show speciality and deep planning in accordance environment as well as visual images, it was destined to be neglected by readers. The publication market seemed to dwindle rapidly because of revolutionary changes through information super-highway. The discussion on the future of publication culture followed not simple and temporary dwindling but the trend that letters culture, the base of book publication, retreated from the core of human culture: Consequently, common concept that books were culture publication was asked to make correction. To adapt oneself to changes of publication media environment, people were demanded to change their ideas greatly and to produce new books enough to satisfy demand in new era. The books having new concept mean the ones that have various types to reinforce visual images connecting printing types with photo images supplementarily. When photo editors who can read images and command image languages in accordance with the era join publication process, visual publication starts. The paper examined the roles of photo editors who were information messengers in the era of image information. The study investigated needs of books that met the era of images to emphasize visual images, and examined new possibility to widen publication areas of photographs by book making.