Tag Archives: Photography
Mid-wink, Mid-gum chew, Mid-hair twirl
January 26, 2012 — by
Take a peek at these disturbingly awkward portraits of teenage girls by Stockholm based artist Julia Peirone. Capturing in between moments of the in between years. Mid-wink, Mid-gum chew, Mid-hair twirl of middle schoolers.
Keita’s Couples
January 2, 2012 — by
Sharp style and sweet love fill these portraits of young couples of Bamako, Mali in the early-mid 1950s. Self taught photographer Seydou Keita (1921-2001) opened a portrait studio in Bamako, renowned throughout West Africa.
Street Snaps
December 23, 2011 — by
Prolific photographer Martha Cooper captured the gritty culture of New York City streets during the 1970s and ’80s. She’s best known for cataloging the endless tags and murals of influential 80s graffiti artists, respecting their work as art. Check out her books of photographs: Hip Hop Files: Photographs 1979-1984, Subway Art and Tag Town.
Hair DOs
December 8, 2011 — by
Do DO these DOs: Teeny braids, twists n’ turns, sculpted coils. Nigerian born photographer J.D Okhai Ojeikere captured the hairstyles of young Nigerian women in the late 1960s. ‘Hairstyle Series’ consists of over a thousand pictures of fashionable coifs and is the largest of his archive to date.
‘All these hairstyles are ephemeral. I want my photographs to be noteworthy traces of them. I always wanted to record moments of beauty, moments of knowledge’. – J.D. Okhai Ojeikere
NYPL Picture Collection: So Much Potential
December 7, 2011 — by
A lot of the time, photographs are either taken at a beginning or at an end. High school yearbook portraits depict a strange moment where a major period of time has just ended and the next has yet to properly begin.
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