Beach Beauties  -  Beth Dunlop

Postcards and Photographs, 1890-1940

KORTE INHOUD

This amusing and provocative collection of early hand-tinted postcards and black-and-white photographs presents the American female bather in her colorful seaside costumes. Posed and spontaneous, sober and giddy, these early images offer a delightful ode to women at the beach. They also serve as an evocative social document of the newly liberated woman. Victorian women in their last age of innocence went to the beach heavily clad and were bystanders as men frolicked in the surf. But social mores and fashion...
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2001 Uitgever: Abrams 80 paginas Taal: Engels Grootte:  216x152 ISBN-10: 1584790628 ISBN-13: 9781584790624