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Crowns: My Hair, My Soul, My Freedom


Angela Bassett, Sandro Miller, Anna Morin and Patricia Smith


A photographic panorama of the creativity and variety of Black women's hairstyles

In Crowns: My Hair, My Soul, My Freedom American photographer Sandro Miller (born 1958) celebrates the social endurance, cultural heritage and self-expression of Black women through their hairstyles. In this series of portraits, each subject is posed in front of either a strikingly black or vibrant geometric background that serves to highlight the models’ skin tones and accentuates their ultra-stylized hair, whether a halo of bright gold curls or crimson locks swept into an elegant bun. Each image is based on the relevant model’s “hair story” and pays homage to her personal fashion sense, documenting the many unspoken ways in which Black women assert their autonomy through their physical appearance. In this project, Miller seeks to recognize and honor Black women’s creativity and beauty while celebrating their social endurance and cultural memory at the same time.

 

Sandro Miller (b. 1958) is considered one of the world’s foremost humanitarian photographers. Angela Evelyn Bassett is an American actress, director, producer, and activist. She is known for her biographical film roles, most notably her performance as Tina Turner in the biopic What’s Love Got to Do with It (1993), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. Patricia Smith has been called “a testament to the power of words to change lives.” She is the author of seven books of poetry, including Incendiary Art (2017), winner of an NAACP Image Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in Poetry magazine, the Paris Review, the New York Times, TriQuarterly, Tin House, the Washington Post, and in both Best American Poetry and Best American Essays. Anne Morin is a graduate of the École Nationale de Photographie d’Arles and the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier. She worked for the PHotoEspaña Festival between 2001 and 2004, before becoming the head of diChroma Photography (Madrid), a company specialized in international travelling photographic exhibitions, as well as in the development and production of cultural projects. She curated several exhibitions such as Vivian Maier, Margaret Watkins, Jessica Lange and Robert Doisneau.

Category:  Art & Craft
ISBN:  9788857245584
Publisher:  Thames & Hudson
On sale:  January 2022
Format:  Hardback
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