Identity
Dress Codes in European Schools : London - Paris - Berlin - Barcelona - Milan, January 2004 - April 2006
Catherine Balet

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Author(s)

Catherine Balet

Publication, year

Göttingen : Steidl Publishers, 2006

Scope

160 Pages, illustrated, 29 cm.

ISBN

3865212263

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At the age where each young person is intensely aware of how he or she is seen by others, the photographer Catherine Balet captured the complex mix of determination and fragility in their poses. Signs , labels, codes and icons bear a social and aesthetic significance in the world of teenagers, who are struggling to redefine themselves in a atomized society with a wide range of choices.

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Location

Cabinet 14 - 1: Mode

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;