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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, in towering tresses: In 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 60's and 70's.
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J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere was born 1930 in Nigeria and has worked as an advertising photographer for most of his life. He has documented the hairstyles of Nigeria in painstaking detail for over thirty years. Ojeikere's refined and stylish photographs illustrate how what may appear as mere surface can be an expression of a culture's innermost uniqueness.
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...elegant pictures...are less anthropological field studies than records of an astonishngly varied and sophisticated species of abstract sculpture. -- The New York Times, March 16, 2001 --Holland Cotter
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- PublisherScalo Verlag Ac
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 3908247306
- ISBN 13 9783908247302
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages160
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Book Description First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 158 pages. Text in English by Andre Magnin and Martin Jaggi. A collection of black and white photographs from this Nigerian photographer. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new and still largely in the publisher's shrinkwrap slit open to verify edition. Seller Inventory # 192886
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