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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

Title	:	Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging (Dress, Body, Culture)
Author	:	Brent Luvaas
Rating	:	4.72 (890 Votes)
Asin	:	0857855751
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	336Pages
Publish Date	:	2015-4-8
Language	:	English

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.. 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. Street style blogging has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity over the last decade. Bloggers blur the distinction between professional and amateur, insider and outsider, self and brand

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 engaging book takes us on a journey from the novice street style photographer through to the established street style fashion blogger. “Brent Luvaas is the

This is not a how-to book, but rather a reflection of what exists in the peculiar business side of the art world. It gave me a new perspective on why fashion is important to the field of anthropology.. Even though he's a professor, it's not at all too academic. not as expected with book smaller than imagined. Tremendously detailed. An excellent guide to the reality, and I mean reality, of what to expect in the business side of Being an Artist. This flows nicely and gives an in-depth view of the art and having an art business.. Though the extensive information here offers valuable insights into the current world, the rest is still luck of the draw.. There is no business model for artists that offer a promise of financial success. Regular updates over the years keep this information vital. Well written. Perfect for a brand new artist.. Excellently written and so interesting and fun to read

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