Fashion figures : word and image in contemporary fashion photography

This study explores the tension between text and image in the fashion spreads published in three magazines since 1980: The Face, Arena and Vogue. It takes as its starting part Roland Barthes' axiom that the magazine is 'a machine for making Fashion' and pursues his thesis that it is t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jobling, Paul
Published: University of Warwick 1998
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323201