Ted Polhemus (born 1947 inNeptune, New Jersey, United States) is an Americananthropologist, writer, and photographer who lives and works onEngland's south coast. His work focuses on fashion andanti-fashion, identity, and the sociology of style and of the body with the objective to explore the social and communicative importance of personal expression in style. He has written or edited more than a dozen books, and has taken many of the photographs that appear in them. He was the creator and curator of an exhibition, called "StreetStyle", at theVictoria & Albert Museum in London.[3] One of his most popular books is "Streetstyle: From Sidewalk to Catwalk" (Thames & Hudson 1994), which he originally wrote as the book for the exhibition. Ted Polhemus wrote an updated version of Streetstyle, which PYMCA published in 2010. In 2011 he published a revised and expanded version of his early bookFashion & Anti-fashion. He also explored the social and cultural impact of thebaby boom generation, culminating in the 2012 publication ofBOOM! – A Baby Boomer Memoir, 1947-22.
Polhemus, Ted.Body Styles. Leonard Publishing (1998).ISBN1-85291-008-9.
Polhemus, Ted.Diesel: World Wide Wear. Watson-Guptill Publications (1998).ISBN0-8230-1203-4.
Polhemus, Ted (1998), "Mainstreaming Bike Culture: Bikes 'R' Us", inDrutt, Matthew (ed.),Motorcycle Mania; The biker book, Universe Publishing, pp. 91–97,ISBN978-0-7893-0132-1
Polhemus, Ted (1998), "The Art of the Motorcycle: Outlaws, Animals and Sex Machines", in Krens, Thomas; Drutt, Matthew (eds.),The Art of the Motorcycle, Harry N. Abrams, pp. 48–59,ISBN978-0-8109-6912-4
Mendini, Alessandro; Anna Piaggi; Ted Polhemus; Olivier Saillard; Colin McDowell.Yoox Attack. Trolley Books (2006).
Polhemus, Ted.Streetstyle. PYMCA (2010).
Polhemus, Ted.Fashion & Anti-fashion: Exploring adornment and dress from an anthropological perspective. lulu (2011)
Polhemus, Ted.BOOM! – A Baby Boomer Memoir, 1947–2022. lulu (2012).
Polhemus, Ted.Orbiting Neptune – A Baby Boomer Memoir. blurb (2012).
Manandhar, Nina, Eve Dawoud; Ted Polhemus; Paul Gorman;Gary Aspden; Nick Jensen.What We Wore: A People’s History of British Style. Prestel (2014).ISBN978-3-7913-4898-8.