Documenting Fashion: Dress and Visual Culture in 1920s and 1930s America

Author:   Rebecca Arnold
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350603790


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   05 February 2026
Format:   Paperback
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Documenting Fashion: Dress and Visual Culture in 1920s and 1930s America


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Author:   Rebecca Arnold
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781350603790


ISBN 10:   1350603791
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   05 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: 1920s 1: Fashion, Images and Materiality Camera and Materiality Camera and Body Looking, Wearing 2: Leisure, Work and Surveillance Travel, Trends and Aspirations Cities, Anonymity and Spectacle 3: Documenting, Passing and Resisting Adapting and Performing Passing Identifying with Images Part 2: 1930s 4: Between Illustration and Photography Flou Picturing Fashion 5: Shadows, Light and Hollywood Gold Diggers of 1933 Light and Shadow 6: Colour, Emotion and Modernity Colour Processes and ‘Intimate Publics’ Colour, Luxury and Modernity Coda Notes Bibliography Index

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Arnold's book gives us a fascinating and more inclusive look at radical shifts in self-fashioning in 1920s and 1930s America. Documenting Fashion enhances our own view of how technologies and embodied experiences of dress played out on camera, on screen and in advertising and print media. -- Alison Matthews David, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada


Arnold's book gives us a fascinating and more inclusive look at radical shifts in self-fashioning in 1920s and 1930s America. Documenting Fashion enhances our own view of how technologies and embodied experiences of dress played out on camera, on screen and in advertising and print media. * Alison Matthews David, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada *


Author Information

Rebecca Arnold is a historian who has held posts at The Courtauld Institute, Royal College of Art & Central Saint Martins, London, UK. Her publications include The American Look, Fashion: A Very Short Introduction, and Avedon Advertising with Laura Avedon and James Martin.

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