Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging (Dress, Body, Culture)
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (601 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0857855751 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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great read Chole Peck Excellently written and so interesting and fun to read. Even though he's a professor, it's not at all too academic. It gave me a new perspective on why fashion is important to the field of anthropology.
Street style blogging has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity over the last decade. This cutting-edge book documents the evolution of street style photography, from the fieldwork photos of early anthropology to the glamorized snapshots that appear on blogs today, and explores the structural shifts in the global fashion industry that street style has helped bring about.Chronicling author and anthropologist Brent Luvaas' experience over three years of blogging through vivid street imagery and rich ethnographic detail, this book turns the lens of street style photography back onto anthropology itself, arguing that the phenomenon is a powerful mode of amateur ethnography. This book documents that blur from the ground level-from the streets of Philadelphia to the sidewalks of New York Fash
Brent Luvaas is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Drexel University, USA
He also offers us access to his own subjectivity and sense of “style radar” as a street style photographer and blogger. His self-reflexive awareness of the still-primarily masculinized space of the urban flâneur contributes to the power of this book to unlock binary oppositions between insider versus outsider, amateur versus professional, and street style versus street fashion.” Susan Kaiser, University of California, Davis, USA“Has street style enriched and democratized fashion or has the latter eaten the former for breakfast? Brent Luvaas' own take on street style gives a unique and much-needed perspective from which we can begin to see what is and what will happen to the presentation of the self in public.” Ted Polhemus, photographer and author of Streetstyle: From Sidewalk to Catwalk“This refreshing and engag