Monthly Archives: December 2014
Summer Dress and Modern Dancing combine to make necessary the removal of objectionable hair
Christine Hope in her article “Caucasian Female Body Hair and American Culture” published in the Journal of American Culture in 1982, traces the stigmatization of women’s underarm hair to an advertisement in the issue of May 1915 Harper’s Bazaar.
either way you have to shave and that’s a big nothing. Right?
“‘Being a woman is just as nothing as being a man. Either way you have to shave and that’s a big nothing. Right?’ I was oversimplifying, but it was true.” Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Have you ever…?
…looked at a beard really, really closely? ..wanted to rest on a beard, hide in a beard? from Dimitri Tolstoï: (photos shown here are from a spread in “View on Color,” issue 28)
Why don’t more of us…?
…dye our pit hair? Whether it seems perfectly natural or more of a “bizarre new beauty trend,” I’m inclined to think this look is mega rad and inspiring.
What about when…?
What about when hair looks like marble or water or air? Trick of the stylist or trick of the camera? Dora Maar (1907-1997), Mannequin With Perm, 1935, Gelatin silver print on baryta paper mounted on cardboard, 23.4 x 17.7 cm, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Photo: Städel Museum – ARTOTHEK, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2014, […]
HAIR Playlist inspired by OFF THE AIR
Animal Collective – “Bluish” Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head – “Beard Lust” Pavement – “Cut Your Hair” Hunx + His Punx – “Hairdresser Blues” Nina Simone – “Black is the color of my true love’s hair” Crosby Stills Nash & Young – “Almost Cut My Hair” Hair – “Hair Song” Led Zeppelin – “Long Black Wavy […]
Adult Swim’s OFF THE AIR // Episode on HAIR
Adult Swim’s OFF THE AIR, a show from Dave Hughes, former MTV producer and animator, airs periodically at 4am and unites the collective, unblinking, televisual subconscious into tiny episodes organized by theme. From Season 4, their episode on HAIR: an audio and visual journey through video clips across time and space, which aired September 2014. Enjoy.
This wonderful illustration by Olimpia Zagnoli
Illustrator Olimpia Zagnoli lives and works in Milan, Italy. Olimpia Zagnoli is inspired by soft body shapes and kaleidoscopes. Olimpia Zagnoli’s illustrations regularly appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, La Repubblica, Taschen, and many others.
Hair and Death // the photographs of Cathrine Ertmann [warning: potentially difficult material]
Refinery29 features photographs by artist Cathrine Ertmann, a rare and arresting look into the world of the deceased. Her accompanying text is particularly effective, including certain facts about hair: In a death-trend most of us know as rigor mortis, muscular tension and subsequent freezing begins in the neck. What can often occur then is that muscles surrounding the […]
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