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 (2008) , Fashion: A Very Short Introduction (2009), and Avedon Advertising (2019) with Laura Avedon and James Martin.

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.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1: 1920s 1: Fashion, Images and MaterialityCamera and MaterialityCamera and BodyLooking, Wearing2: Leisure, Work and SurveillanceTravel, Trends and AspirationsCities, Anonymity and Spectacle3: Documenting, Passing and ResistingAdapting and PerformingPassingIdentifying with ImagesPart 2: 1930s 4: Between Illustration and PhotographyFlouPicturing Fashion5: Shadows, Light and HollywoodGold Diggers of 1933Light and Shadow6: Colour, Emotion and ModernityColour Processes and ‘Intimate Publics’Colour, Luxury and ModernityCodaNotesBibliographyIndex

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 (2008) , Fashion: A Very Short Introduction (2009), and Avedon Advertising (2019) with Laura Avedon and James Martin.

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.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1: 1920s 1: Fashion, Images and MaterialityCamera and MaterialityCamera and BodyLooking, Wearing2: Leisure, Work and SurveillanceTravel, Trends and AspirationsCities, Anonymity and Spectacle3: Documenting, Passing and ResistingAdapting and PerformingPassingIdentifying with ImagesPart 2: 1930s 4: Between Illustration and PhotographyFlouPicturing Fashion5: Shadows, Light and HollywoodGold Diggers of 1933Light and Shadow6: Colour, Emotion and ModernityColour Processes and ‘Intimate Publics’Colour, Luxury and ModernityCodaNotesBibliographyIndex

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 (2008) , Fashion: A Very Short Introduction (2009), and Avedon Advertising (2019) with Laura Avedon and James Martin.

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.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1: 1920s 1: Fashion, Images and MaterialityCamera and MaterialityCamera and BodyLooking, Wearing2: Leisure, Work and SurveillanceTravel, Trends and AspirationsCities, Anonymity and Spectacle3: Documenting, Passing and ResistingAdapting and PerformingPassingIdentifying with ImagesPart 2: 1930s 4: Between Illustration and PhotographyFlouPicturing Fashion5: Shadows, Light and HollywoodGold Diggers of 1933Light and Shadow6: Colour, Emotion and ModernityColour Processes and ‘Intimate Publics’Colour, Luxury and ModernityCodaNotesBibliographyIndex