Visual essays, photos, and ephemera from youth cultures.
Much of the conversation surrounding New York Fashion Week has rightfully criticized the fashion industry’s continued refusal to hire non-white models, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a long history of black supermodels rising (if briefly) to the top of the fashion world.
Orson Welles made his first short film, Hearts of Age when he was just 19 years old.
Remember Macaulay Culkin? Not the Macaulay of the “WE FORGOT KEVIN!!!”
Hannie Schaft was a resistance fighter of the Raad Van Verzet, which was closely tied to the Communist Party of the Netherlands.
Tonight Teenage makes its Cleveland debut with a sneak preview screening hosted by Bellwether, a project of the Contemporary Art Society of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Teenage is making its Australian premiere this week with three screenings at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
One of my favorite films, Sans Soleil (by the late, great film essayist Chris Maker), features the surreal Japanese dance culture of takenoko-zoku.
Ilse Bing, known as “The Queen of Leica” was an avant-garde photographer and pioneer of monochrome images, born in 1899 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
We often hear talk about how popular culture today is so self-referential and self-cannibalizing that it’s impossible to tell where nostalgia ends and creativity begins.
Carmen Dell’Orefice, model and actress, was discovered at the age of 13 on a bus going to ballet class.