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Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging (Dress, Body, Culture)
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Winner of the 2019 John Collier Jr Award Street style blogging has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity over the last decade. Amateur photographers, often with no formal training in fashion, have become critical arbiters of taste and trends, influencing the representations that appear in magazines and on runways, and putting new cities on the fashion world map. 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. Bloggers blur the distinction between professional and amateur, insider and outsider, self and brand. This book documents that blur from the ground level-from the streets of Philadelphia to the sidewalks of New York Fashion Week.Street Style is an essential read for students and scholars of fashion, anthropology, sociology, media and cultural studies, and fans of street style photography alike.
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Blog Generation (Saggi tascabili Laterza Vol. 287) (Italian Edition)
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«Se questo libro non fosse anche molto piacevole da leggere, direi che si tratta di una sorta di studio sociologico sui weblog e sui motori di ricerca. La prospettiva di Granieri è al tempo stesso ampia e precisa: attraverso l’individuazione dei suoi attori e l’esame della tecnologia, la trasformazione delle relazioni personali oggi in atto è messa in luce nei suoi vari aspetti. Il libro di Granieri è ispirato a una visione della democrazia e dell’organizzazione sociale in movimento. La sua è una vera vocazione politica, non di partito, ma di umanità.» Derrick De Kerckhove
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Women in Clothes
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWomen in Clothes is a book unlike any other. It is essentially a conversation among hundreds of women of all nationalities—famous, anonymous, religious, secular, married, single, young, old—on the subject of clothing, and how the garments we put on every day define and shape our lives.It began with a survey. The editors composed a list of more than fifty questions designed to prompt women to think more deeply about their personal style. Writers, activists, and artists including Cindy Sherman, Kim Gordon, Kalpona Akter, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Tavi Gevinson, Miranda July, Roxane Gay, Lena Dunham, and Molly Ringwald answered these questions with photographs, interviews, personal testimonies, and illustrations.Even our most basic clothing choices can give us confidence, show the connection between our appearance and our habits of mind, express our values and our politics, bond us with our friends, or function as armor or disguise. They are the tools we use to reinvent ourselves and to transform how others see us. Women in Clothes embraces the complexity of women’s style decisions, revealing the sometimes funny, sometimes strange, always thoughtful impulses that influence our daily ritual of getting dressed.
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A Book of Tracts: Containing the Origin and Progress; Cruelties; Frauds; Superstitions; Miracles; Ceremonies; Idolatrous Customs, &C., &C. Of the Church of Rome (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Book of Tracts: Containing the Origin and Progress; Cruelties; Frauds; Superstitions; Miracles; Ceremonies; Idolatrous Customs, &C., &C. Of the Church of RomeAt'a time when Popery is making much noise in the world, and stalking through the breadth and length of our own land, the reader ought to know what it is, without being obliged to listen to the se ductive invitation, Came and see and to know that, while its words are smooth as oil, war is in its heart against all that can promote the mental, moral, civil, political, and eternal well-being of man. Its outside is, indeed, dazzling, having all the pomp that charms the eye, but its inside is full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. It has a ser pent's splendid dress, but it also wears a serpent's sting.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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