Fashion Theory: Volume 6, Issue 1 The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture

Special Issue on Fashion and Photography Looking American: Louise Dahl-Wolfe's Fashion Photographs of the 1930s and 1940s Considers the influential fashion photography of Louise Dahl-Wolfe in Harper's Bazaar and Vogue and how it evoked myths of America. Rebecca Arnold (Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design) The Politics of the First: The Emergence of the Black Model in the Civil Rights Era Janice M. Cheddie (Goldsmiths College, University of London) On the Turn: Millenial Bodies and the Meaning of Time in Andrea Giacobbe's Fashion Photography Traces the influence of new media, including digital photography, upon the world of fashion photography and its impact on how the world is depicted and conceived. Paul Jobling (University of Brighton) Bloody Jumpers: Benetton and the Mechanics of Cultural Exclusion Explores Bennetton's controversial ‘Shock of Reality' campaign including AIDS/HIV ads, during the early 1990s. Paul Antick (University of Middlesex) "Put in Just for Pictures": Fashion Editorial and the Composite Image in Nova, 1965-1975 A timely look at the treatment of fashion within the recently re-launched Nova magazine and its relationship with the original version. Alice Beard (Kingston University)