MAPh | In the spotlight: Fashion & the swimsuit with Dr Christine Schmidt

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In the spotlight: Fashion & the swimsuit with Dr Christine Schmidt

30 July 2011

Anton BRUEHL Swimsuit advertisement 1951
dye-transfer colour photograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Gift of American Friends of the National Gallery of Australia Inc., New York NY USA
made possible with the generous support of Anton Bruehl Jr, 2006

Join international fashion designer and historian DR CHRISTINE SCHMIDT as she discusses the influence of the fashion model and the swimsuit. Hear how images created for magazines by photographers such as ANTON BRUEHL, EDWARD STEICHEN and HORST P. HORST contributed to narratives of beauty, physical fitness and the modern body.

2PM at MGA; BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL

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We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

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