Work! - A Queer History of Modeling

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Elspeth H Brown, Elspeth H. Brown
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781478000334
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0033-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous