[DOC] Lee Friedlander: The Little Screens (Afterall Books / One Work) by Saul Anton in Arts-Photography

Description

This book explores the lsquo;craft of usersquo;; the cultivated; ordinary and ingenious ideas and practices that promote satisfying and resourceful use of garments; presenting them as an alternative; dynamic; experiential frame with which to articulate and foster sustainability in the fashion sector. Here Kate Fletcher provides a broad imagining of sustainability in fashion that gives attention to tending and wearing garments; and favours their use as much as their creation. She offers a diversified view of fashion beyond the market and the marketrsquo;s purpose and reveals fashion provision and expression in a world not dependent on continuous consumption. Framing design and use as a single whole; the book uncovers a more contingent and time-dependent role for design in sustainability; recognising that garments; while sold as a product; are lived as a process. Drawing from stories and portrait photography that document the ways in which members of the public from across three continents use their clothes; and the work of seven international design teams seeking to amplify these use practices; Craft of Use presents a changed social narrative for fashion; borne out of ideas of satisfaction and interdependence; of action; knowledge and human agency; that glimpses fashion post-growth.