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J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere

von J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, André Magnin

Art Photography Culture Biography

ISBN

3908247306

Verlag

Scalo Publishers

Erschienen

01.01.1970

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Komme während der Öffnungszeiten vorbei und leihe ein verfügbares Exemplar aus.

Stichwörter

Photography Nigerian Culture Hairstyles Fashion African Art Cultural Documentation Visual Arts 1960s 1970s African History Social Commentary Art Photography Cultural Heritage Hair Art Sculptural Photography Advertising Photography African Fashion Ethnography Nigerian History Mass Media African Diaspora Artistic Expression Cultural Identity Visual Culture Documentary Photography Fashion History

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No other aspect of fashion is as fleeting and ephemeral as hairstyles. Whereas we might ponder the length of hemlines and the fabric du jour, hair often escapes the passionate fashionista's fastidious and discerning gaze. J.D 'Okhai Ojeikere (born 1930), who worked as an advertising photographer for most of his life, has documented the hairstyles of his native Nigeria in painstaking detail for over thirty years Plaited, braided, in buns and in towering tresses Ojeikere's photographs hair reveals its sculptural qualities. His deceptively simple, classically composed photographs display hairstyles as a sheer play of forms -- minimal, abstract, transient artworks. But Ojeikere's photographs do not merely purvey aesthetic pleasures They provide and unexpected insight into Nigerian culture. Detailed captions tell us by whom and for which occasion a particular hairdo was worn, leading the reader into a previously unfamiliar social milieu. In an exhaustive text Ojeikere recounts his life as a photographer, giving us a glimpse of the nascent African mass media culture of the 60s and 70s.