Title

Fashion Culture: Work! A Queer History of Modeling

Contributor Names

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Museum

Brown, Elspeth H., 1961-

Date

2019-09-25

Description

On September 25, 2019, Elspeth H. Brown presented her book WORK!, an out-of-the-ordinary history of twentieth-century American culture and capitalism. Brown tells the largely unknown story of queer models and photographers, showing how queer sensibilities shaped the commercialized sexuality that's at the center of consumer capitalism.

Type

Moving Image

Subject

Models (Persons)

Queer theory

Fashion photography

Women in popular culture

Femininity in popular culture

Sex in advertising

Rights

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Identifier

FIT Repository ID: aod_000497