Name: Street Style By Brent Luvaas (Drexel University, USA)
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Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging by Brent Luvaas (Drexel University, USA)

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.

Street Style Reviews

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 *
Brent Luvaas is the first academic to show that street style photography is serious business. Style and sartorial expression are important parts of our visual culture, playing a huge role in building our identities, and communicating to others. Street Style is an intriguing study of how street style blogs have become an inseparable part of the fashion industry. * Liisa Jokinen, writer, photographer and founder of street style blog Hel Looks *
What I learned from [Street Style] has expanded the way I see fashion. * Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America *
This refreshing and engaging book takes us on a journey from the novice street style photographer through to the established street style fashion blogger. It goes far beyond the superficial as Luvaas' auto-ethnographic account exposes the world of the fashion blogger with an anthropologist's insightful eye and art of story-telling. * Sophie Woodward, University of Manchester, UK *
In this book, Luvaas treats us to an array of beautiful street style photographs. But he does so within a theoretically and methodologically sophisticated analysis of street style in its historical and transnational contexts. 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 flaneur 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 *

About Brent Luvaas (Drexel University, USA)

Brent Luvaas is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Drexel University, USA

Introduction: Anthropology, Street Style 1. On The Street: A Conceptual History of Street Style Photography 2. Traveling the Street Style Blogosphere: Amateur Anthropology from Around the Globe 3. Style Radar: On Becoming a Street Style Blogger and Knowing Whom to Shoot 4. The Subject(s) of Street Style: Street Portraits as Fashion Singularities 5. The Business of Blogging: Free Labor, Freelancing, and Free Stuff 6. Scene from the Sidewalk: Shooting Street Style at New York Fashion Week 7. Conclusion: Straight Up, Redux Bibliography Index

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Sku

GOR008521894

ISBN 13

9780857855756

ISBN 10

0857855751

Title

Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging by Brent Luvaas (Drexel University, USA)

Author

Brent Luvaas (Drexel University, USA)

Series

Dress, Body, Culture

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Year published

20160407

Number of pages

336

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N/A

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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

Street Style Brent Luvaas (Drexel University, USA)

Street Style by Brent Luvaas (Drexel University, USA)

Street Style Summary

Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging by Brent Luvaas (Drexel University, USA)

Street Style Reviews

About Brent Luvaas (Drexel University, USA)

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