Beach Beauties: Postcards and Photographs, 1890-1940 [Hardcover]

Beth Dunlop (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2001

This amusing and provocative collection of early hand-tinted postcards and black-and-white photographs presents the American female bather in her colorful seaside costumes. Posed and spontaneous, sober and giddy, these early images offer a delightful ode to women at the beach. They also serve as an evocative social document of the newly liberated woman. Victorian women in their last age of innocence went to the beach heavily clad and were bystanders as men frolicked in the surf. But social mores and fashions began to change at the turn of the century. Women cast aside their cumbersome garments for scantier and sometimes risque bathing frocks, which in turn gave way to the daring swimsuit. A camera-happy nation documented these carefree women at the beach. Beach Beauties captures the best of these delightful seaside scenes.

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About the Author

BETH DUNLOP, the former architecture critic of The Miami Herald, is the author of Building a Dream: The Art of Disney Architecture (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.), Florida's Vanishing Architecture (Pineapple Press). A House for My Mother: Architects Build for their Families (Princeton Architectural Press), and Arquitectonica (AIA Press), a monograph about the innovative Florida architectural firm. Her writing has appeared widely in architecture, design, and travel magazines. She lives in Miami Beach with her husband and son.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 80 pages
• Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang (May 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584790628
• ISBN-13: 978-1584790624
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,041,422 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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