A clandestine visual culture initiated in the early 20th century (it continued into the 1970s; the bulk of Aletti’s archive is from the 1940s and 50s), physique photography was propelled by studios ...

Many scholars debate how much they should become immersed in societies or cultures they study. Lianne McTavish went all in. A professor of the history of art, design and visual culture at the ...

Reduced to bare bones, fashion history is a dance between controlling and (supposedly) liberating the body. This was dramatically illustrated in the 20th century when in the 1910s Paul Poiret ...