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Books by Eugenie Shinkle

Fashion photography reflects not only the desires and fantasies of the consumer, but also the cha... more Fashion photography reflects not only the desires and fantasies of the consumer, but also the changing face of cultural values in society as a whole. Fashion Photography: The Story in 180 Pictures charts the evolution and glamour of the genre. Featuring names from classic photography alongside those from more recent generations, its draws upon myriad archives and sources to provide a comprehensive and accessible exploration of the subject.

Fashion Photography: The Story in 180 Pictures charts how fashion photography flourished with the rise of illustrated magazines, how influential art directors collaborated with photographers to shape epochs of style, and how generations of fashion photographers have built upon one another to expand this genre over the past 150 years.

Through 180 key images, Fashion Photography: The Story in 180 Pictures surveys the important figures and movements to provide an essential primer to fashion photography.

edited by Davide Deriu, Krystallia Kamvasinou, and Eugenie Shinkle. London: Ashgate Press, 2014.

Papers by Eugenie Shinkle

Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London)., 2003

Harvard Design Magazine: architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and planning, 2016

edited by Davide Deriu, Krystallia Kamvasinou, and Eugenie Shinkle. London: Ashgate Press, 2014.

History of Photography, 2017

George Shaw’s paintings are frequently described as straightforward accounts of anomie and social... more George Shaw’s paintings are frequently described as straightforward accounts of anomie and social alienation; his subject matter the shoddy worker’s housing of Tile Hill, the council estate that he grew up in, and the slow dereliction of many British council estates in the present day. But Tile Hill is not a typical council estate, and Shaw’s restive, atmospheric paintings – poised between Romanticism and brutal realism, between nostalgia and critique – are not typical portrayals of disaffected suburban life. All of Shaw’s paintings of Tile Hill are based on photographs. His archive comprises over 100,000 digital and analogue images which serve as reference points for his paintings. Constructed as composites of numerous distinct images, Shaw's paintings reproduce the camera’s expanded field of vision and its homogeneous, ordered space. This objective gaze – the camera’s impartial vision masquerading as that of the eye – is remarkably seductive, and it has often overdetermined th...

In 1955, in a special issue of the English monthly magazine Architectural Review (AR), writer Ian... more In 1955, in a special issue of the English monthly magazine Architectural Review (AR), writer Ian Nairn coined the term ‘subtopia’ to describe the anodyne uniformity of suburban development and the isolationist lifestyle that it represented. The visual emblem of this critique – used widely by many of Nairn’s contemporaries in shorter features in the AR, but foregrounded in this issue – was a distinctive kind of image of the suburban landscape in which the photographic foreground was given over almost entirely to the asphalted surface of the road. Nairn’s photographs, and those of many of his contemporaries at AR, follow a strikingly consistent formula: the bottom half of the image an empty expanse of tarmac, with a scattering of dwellings and a blank sky above. Twenty years later, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, the New Topographics exhibition brought public (and later, worldwide) attention to a group of photographers producing pictures that drew on a remarkably similar idi...

The Journal of Architecture, 2019

Through 180 key images, Fashion Photography: The Story in 180 Pictures surveys the important figures and movements to provide an essential primer to fashion photography.

edited by Davide Deriu, Krystallia Kamvasinou, and Eugenie Shinkle. London: Ashgate Press, 2014.

Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London)., 2003

Harvard Design Magazine: architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and planning, 2016

edited by Davide Deriu, Krystallia Kamvasinou, and Eugenie Shinkle. London: Ashgate Press, 2014.

History of Photography, 2017

The Journal of Architecture, 2019

Posing has been central to art, dance, and sculpture for thousands of years. In recent years, the... more Posing has been central to art, dance, and sculpture for thousands of years. In recent years, the growing interest in fashion media and modelling has also focused attention on questions of pose and posing. Incorporating notions of movement and stillness, posing can be understood in terms of historical modes of representation, as well as contemporary media and rapidly evolving relationships between bodies, subjects, and technologies of representation. Posing incorporates symbolic and semiotic meaning alongside embodied action and feeling. Recent coverage of the work of choreographer Stephen Galloway in 032c magazine, and new publications such as Steven Sebring’s Study of Pose: 1000 Poses by Coco Rocha testify to the growing interest in the cultural significance of posing and the pose – yet both remain under-researched areas with little discussion of their significance.

This symposium will assert the importance of pose as both a creative practice and an emerging area of critical inquiry. It will bring together multi-disciplinary academics and practitioners to discuss and develop new ways of understanding pose and posing in a historical and contemporary context. We encourage proposals for papers that address pose from global and diverse perspectives. This event represents a potentially fruitful and exciting moment to bring these strands together to the benefit of researchers within practice and theory-based media, historians of dress, photography, art and film and allied disciplines.

The keynote lecture will be delivered by David Campany, internationally recognised writer and curator, and Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster.

Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico (1944 – 2013) made a major contribution to the development... more Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico (1944 – 2013) made a major contribution to the development of urban photography, and yet his work remains relatively little known in Britain. Basilico graduated in architecture from Milan Polytechnic and began to photograph urban landscapes in the early 1970s under the influence of the ‘new topographics’ approach. After portraying Milan’s factory buildings, he went on to photograph cities around the world for the next four decades. His formation shaped his distinctive way of observing urban space through the camera. By seeking familiar elements in the most foreign of places, he established an intimate bond with the city as an ever-changing living organism. What is the significance of Basilico’s work today, and what is its legacy? An interdisciplinary panel
will reflect on these questions from the perspectives of architecture, photography, art history, and Italian Studies. While focusing on the work of a singular figure, the seminar aims to address wider issues concerning the relationship between photography and the experience of urban space.