Fashion at the Frontier

Photography, Time, and Colonial Modernity on Brazil's Madeira-Mamoré Railroad

AvElizabeth Kutesko,Rebecca Arnold

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections

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Revisiting Dana Bertran Merrill’s remarkable archive, this innovative interrogation of photographs of the anonymous workforce who built the Madeira-Mamoré railroad reveals how fashion inhabited a landscape defined by extractive capitalism, transnational migration, and uneven networks of power. Bringing fashion studies into conversation with photography and the histories of labor and colonialism, it foregrounds the presence of migrant labourers from across the globe, Caribbean washerwomen, North American contractors, Brazilian engineers and sanitarians, and Indigenous communities. The result is a vivid account of how the camera both reinforced and unsettled racialised systems of classification and control.Fashion at the Frontier offers fresh perspectives on fashion, time and archival silence, opening up new ways of understanding dress within the wider histories of Latin America and global modernity.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-15
Mått:156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350286726

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Elizabeth Kutesko is Senior Lecturer in Fashion Histories and Theories at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and is the author of Fashioning Brazil: Globalization and the Representation of Brazilian Dress in National Geographic (Bloomsbury, 2018).

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AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: Leaving the stationA late arrivalEmphases and erasuresRailroad tracksBoom to bustModernitiesThe passenger listArchival patchworkListening to clothesChapter outline1. Fashion, time, and global capitalismChronos and kairosComplicity and critiqueThe commodity frontierRailroad timeUniform timeWork timeFashion timePhotographic timeMerrill’s album2. Timekeeping and ingrained timeFashioning the frontierLaborious histories of laborColonizing time, space, and bodiesMarks of wear and tearFollowing a threadLingering, malingering3. Laundering and dirty laundryDressing for the tropicsLaundering the truthSpeed and sanitationFashioning whitenessWhiteness in material formDirty laundry4. Whitening and whitenessEntangled modernitiesDifferent shades of whiteSanitizing RioRacialized frontiersA mirage of modernityNot quite whiteWhiteness as a façade5. Women’s time: on the thresholdDomesticating the jungleThe homeThe hospitalCentering BlacknessThe steam laundryA photographic fragmentThe presence of absenceAfterword: End of the lineNotesBibliographyIndex