Brown Work!

A Queer History of Modeling
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0214-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

Elspeth H. Brown traces modeling's history from the advent of photographic modeling in the early twentieth century to the rise of the supermodel in the 1980s, showing how it is both the quintessential occupation of a modern consumer economy and a practice that has been shaped by queer sensibilities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Elspeth H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Besondere Themen und Arten der Fotografie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Illustrations xiii
Introduction 1
1. From the Artist's Model to the Photographic Model: Containing Sexuality in the Early Twentieth Century 25
2. Race, Sexuality, and the 1920s Stage Model 69
3. Queering Interwar Fashion: Photographers, Models, and the Queer Production of the "Look" 103
4. Black Models and the Invention of the US: "Negro Market," 1945-1960 163
5. "You've Got to Be Real": Constructing Femininity in the Long 1970s 211
Epilogue 271
Notes 277
Bibliography 313
Index 337

Über Autor(innen)

Elspeth H. Brown is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, coeditor of Feeling Photography, also published by Duke University Press, and author of The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884–1929.