Behind every iconic image often lies the technical and economic reality of the commercial studio. Luminous-Lint provides a rare look at the "industry" of the image, documenting the business of photography from 19th-century portrait studios to the specialized firms of the industrial age.
| Introduction |
| 1 | The distinction between commercial photography and advertising |
| 2 | Commercial photography |
| Australian commercial photography |
| 3 | Richard Daintree: Images of Queensland (ca. 1870) |
| American commercial photography |
| 4 | U.S. Treasury Note and National Bank Note Detector (1866) |
| 5 | Mathew Brady's Studio: Soap Factory Workers (ca 1860-1870) |
| 6 | Sears, Roebuck Co.: [Commercial operations] (1907) |
| 7 | Margaret Bourke-White: Commercial advertising photography |
| 8 | Margaret Bourke-White: Otis Steel Co. (1928-1929) |
| 9 | Esther Bubley and Russell Lee: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company (1948) |
| 10 | Robert Yarnall Ritchie: Commercial Modernist |
| German commercial photography |
| 11 | Georg Koppman: German arts and crafts - metalwork (1879) |
| 12 | Albert Renger-Patzsch: Machine parts |
| 13 | Albert Renger-Patzsch: Ruhrchemie factory, Oberhausen-Holten, Germany |
| 14 | Albert Renger-Patzsch: Schubert & Salzer - Textile machinery - Ingolstadt |
| 15 | Mannesmannröhrenwerke A. G., Komotau. 1888-1925; Neuanlagen und Umbauten, ab 1920 (ca. 1929) |
| 16 | Peter Keetman: Volkswagen Factory, Wolfsburg (1953) |
| Swiss commercial photography |
| 17 | Robert Frank: Commercial and advertising photography |
| French commercial photography |
| 18 | François Kollar: Champagne (ca 1935) |
