Work!

A Queer History of Modeling

Elspeth H. Brown (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0026-6 (ISBN)

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From the haute couture runways of Paris and New York and editorial photo shoots for glossy fashion magazines to reality television, models have been a ubiquitous staple of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American consumer culture. In Work! Elspeth H. Brown traces the history of modeling from the advent of photographic modeling in the early twentieth century to the rise of the supermodel in the 1980s. Brown outlines how the modeling industry sanitized and commercialized models' sex appeal in order to elicit and channel desire into buying goods. She shows how this new form of sexuality-whether exhibited in the Ziegfeld Follies girls' performance of Anglo-Saxon femininity or in African American models' portrayal of black glamour in the 1960s-became a central element in consumer capitalism and a practice that has always been shaped by queer sensibilities. By outlining the paradox that queerness lies at the center of capitalist heteronormativity and telling the largely unknown story of queer models and photographers, Brown offers an out of the ordinary history of twentieth-century American culture and capitalism.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	20.07.2019
Zusatzinfo	79 illustrations, incl. 71 in color
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	816 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4780-0026-0 / 1478000260
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0026-6 / 9781478000266
Zustand	Neuware