Ted Polhemus (born 1947 in
Neptune, New Jersey, United States) is an American
anthropologist
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, writer, and photographer who lives and works on England's south coast. His work focuses on fashion and anti-fashion, identity, and the sociology of style and of the body – his objective, to explore the social and communicative importance of personal expression in style. He has written or edited more than a dozen books, and has taken many of the photographs that appear in them. He was the creator and curator of an exhibition, called "StreetStyle", at the
Victoria & Albert Museum
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in London.
[McLaughlin, Patricia. "Body piercing vestige of ancient identity crisis". '']Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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'' (14 April 1995). One of his most popular books is "Streetstyle: From Sidewalk to Catwalk" (Thames & Hudson 1994), which he originally wrote as the book for the exhibition. Ted Polhemus wrote an updated version of Streetstyle, which PYMCA published in 2010.In 2011 he published a revised and expanded version of his early book ''Fashion & Anti-fashion''. Most recently, he has been exploring the social and cultural impact of the baby boom generation and this has culminated in the publication in 2012 of ''BOOM! – A Baby Boomer Memoir, 1947-22''.
Bibliography
* Benthall, Jonathan & Ted Polhemus (editors). ''The Body As a Medium of Expression''. Allen Lane (1975). .
* Polhemus, Ted. ''The Body Reader: Social Aspects of the Human Body''. Pantheon Books (1978). .
* Polhemus, Ted (editor). ''Social Aspects of the Human Body: A Reader of Key Texts''. Penguin Books (1978). .
* Polhemus, Ted & Lynn Procter. ''Fashion & Anti-fashion: Anthropology of Clothing and Adornment''. Thames & Hudson (1978). .
* Polhemus, Ted & Lynn Procter. ''Pop Styles''. Vermilion (1984). .
* Polhemus, Ted & Housk Randall. ''Rituals of Love: Sexual Experiments, Erotic Possibilities''. Picador (1994). .
* Polhemus, Ted. ''Streetstyle: From Sidewalk to Catwalk''. Thames & Hudson (1994). .
* Polhemus, Ted. ''Style Surfing: What to Wear in the 3rd Millennium''. Thames & Hudson (1996). .
* Polhemus, Ted. ''Body Art''. Element Books (1998). .
* Polhemus, Ted. ''Body Styles''. Leonard Publishing (1998). .
* Polhemus, Ted. ''Diesel: World Wide Wear''. Watson-Guptill Publications (1998). .
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* Polhemus, Ted & Housk Randall. ''The Customized Body''. Serpent's Tail (2000). .
* Polhemus, Ted. ''Hot Bodies, Cool Styles: New Techniques in Self-Adornment''. Thames & Hudson (2004). .
* Evans, Caroline; Suzy Menkes; Ted Polhemus; Bradley Quinn. ''Hussein Chayalan''. NAi (2005). .
* Mendini, Alessandro; Anna Piaggi; Ted Polhemus; Olivier Saillard; Colin McDowell. ''Yoox Attack''. Trolley Books (2006).
* Polhemus, Ted. ''Streetstyle''. PYMCA (2010).
* Polhemus, Ted. ''Fashion & Anti-fashion: Exploring adornment and dress from an anthropological perspective''. lulu (2011)
* Polhemus, Ted. ''BOOM! – A Baby Boomer Memoir, 1947–2022''. lulu (2012).
* Polhemus, Ted. ''Orbiting Neptune – A Baby Boomer Memoir''. blurb (2012).
* Manandhar, Nina, Eve Dawoud; Ted Polhemus; Paul Gorman;
Gary Aspden
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; Nick Jensen. ''What We Wore: A People’s History of British Style''. Prestel (2014). .
References
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American anthropologists
American photographers
1947 births
Living people
Motorcycling writers