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Breaking All The Rules: Cosplay and the Art of Self Expression (website, 2013)
By Ger Tysk Breaking All The Rules: Cosplay and the Art of Self-Expression is a photobook project documenting the culture of fan costuming, known in most circles as “cosplay,” across the United States. Cosplayers take their favorite characters from media such as TV shows, cartoons, movies, and video games and recreate the outfits in order to…
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Breaking All The Rules: Cosplay and the Art of Self Expression
Title Breaking All The Rules: Cosplay and the Art of Self Expression Author Ger Tysk Release Date 2013 Pages / Dimensions 216 / 8″ x 10″ Publisher Edition One Country / language United States, English Details Breaking All the Rules is a photobook that showcases the people behind the costumes. Cosplay is a hobby that breaks…
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Cosplay : A History
Title: Cosplay : A History Author: Andrew Liptak Release Date: 2022 Pages / Dimensions: 368 pages / 7″x9″ Publisher: S&S/Sage Press Country / language USA / English Details A history of the colorful and complex kingdom of cosplay and fandom fashion by Andrew Liptak, journalist, historian, and member of the legendary fan-based Star Wars organization the 501st…
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Project A-kon 1990 – Jack Thielepape
Photographer : Jack Thielepape Email : Result : Link : https://web.archive.org/web/20010820052957/http://www.homestead.com/akoncosplay/gallery.html Recovered June 3 2024
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Warren (Chicago, IL)
Susumu Kodai from Space Battleship YamatoCosplayer: @the.yamato.boyPhoto : @m_padron15 Funny enough at anime cons, not a lot of people recognize it as the Space Battleship Yamato, they usually just get hyped over seeing a massive ship at a con or war buffs notice the resemblance. Only a couple of people have recognized it. The ones…
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Cosplay in the United States (1995)
Fashion and style, glamour, glitz aand Gamilons? Obviously these are not the runways of Paris, the pageant that we’re describing is the fantastic world of COSPLAY. Cosplay is an abbreviation of the words costume and play and implies more than just standing on stage and allowing the audience to gawk at your wardrobe. Cosplayers perform skits, sing songs (or at least lip-synch) and attempt for one…
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The Whole Costumer’s Catalogue : A Review
By Alessandra Listen up, children. Once upon a time there was no such thing as the Internet. In those dark days we had to scrape and scrounge what information we could find wherever we could find it: public libraries, phone books, bulletin boards, the backs of obscure magazines. There was no easy way to locate…
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To Be Others is to be more like ourselves
By Andrea Letamendi. Why might a person want to become someone else? What would compel them to put on a costume and assume a different identity? We might ask what flaws or deficits they are trying to conceal. What history, what personality, what kind of life are they trying to escape? What are they hiding…
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Sterling & Gretchen (Kansas City, MO)
“One year there was an evangelist preaching outside to all us con-goers telling us what we were doing was sinful, and a bunch of cosplayers went up and gave him hugs. Well, they tried to. He wasn’t having any of it.” – Gretchen
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Yaya Han (Atlanta, GA)
“When I quit my job to open a costume commission business in 2005, I took the leap to making cosplay my only source of income. Since then my business has slowly, painfully, amazingly developed into a variety of branches, all of which have something to do with cosplay and geek convention culture.”
