Looking outside of fashion per se and more into the history of gay culture in Germany during the period might yield some fruitful results.

Some books on gay Weimar culture that are illustrated:

Gay Berlin by Robert Beachy

Sex and the Weimar Republic by Laurie Marhoefer 

Queer identities and politics in history: a history, 1880-1945 by Clayton John Whisnant

Also there are photographs by August Sander.  Beyond his portraiture, he also took some "party pics" (see the "Artists" parties).

If the student wants to dig deeper -- I can't believe I'm recommending a Daily Mail article on the ARLIS listserv, but it has some good ideas of where one can find archival images, like Landesarchiv Berlin and Schwules Museum.

Finally, the folks at the Goethe Institut might have some good ideas of other image sources.

Jen

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Peregrine, Patricia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I suggest you look at the UCLA Library/Digital Collections’ AIDS posters collection:

http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0002ksb2

 

The AIDS poster collection is remarkable and there are 74 images from Berlin:

http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/Search.do?selectedFormats=all&selectedProjects=27&viewType=1&keyWord=BErLIN

 

The time period is 1987 – 2009 with posters from 44 countries.  Great information given for the posters including photographers names and it may provide additional avenues to investigate.

 

Hope this is helpful.

 

All the best,

Patti Peregrine

 

 

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From: ARLIS/NA List [mailto:[log in to unmask]G] On Behalf Of Maureen Dawley
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Subject: [ARLIS-L] Photographs/images of gay culture in Weimar Germany

 

One of our students is designing costumes for Tony Kushner’s  A Bright Room Called Day and currently looking for photographs of gay culture in Berlin/Weimar Germany. We are turning up images here and there in databases and books but I’m wondering if there is a dedicated image collection specifically focused on gay fashion during the Weimar period, either as a book, online or in an archive—or one database that is particularly good at this.
For example, these are potential books with images for background…

 

A queer history of fashion : from the closet to the catwalk

 

Berliner chic : a locational history of Berlin fashion

 

Against fashion : clothing as art, 1850-1930
Discusses Bauhaus fashion

 

Nazi chic? fashioning women in the Third Reich  (this is online)

History from World War I to the end of the 3^rd Reich

Any suggestions welcome!

 

 

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