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Photographer Adam Eaton spotlights beauty | Revel in the Details
Adam Eaton is focused on spotlighting beauty. This drive is present in his photography, which is largely portraiture that draws on fashion influences, and emphasizes the rich radiance of people of color — and specifically the diversity of his own community. In Eaton’s images, which range from headshots to moody poses, his subjects confront the viewer with steady, confident gazes, or look away with inward expressions, arms wrapped gracefully around themselves. “I see the beauty of people that maybe they don’t recognize, or maybe the society that we live in discriminates against, because the beauty standards of the world are leaning towards white people,” Eaton said. “Black people, our communities…
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Meet 3 Contemporary Artists Who Use Innovative Techniques to Revel in the Beauty of Black Hair
Black hair is—and has constantly operated as—a sort of identity. In early African cultures, hairstyles signified a person’s tribe, social standing, or spouse and children history. On the other hand, the pernicious consequences of colonialism later on shifted how Black hair was considered. In the new hierarchy that emerged, European attributes had been valued and kinky hair and coils were being ridiculed. For centuries, unfavorable perceptions related with normal hair compelled Black people today to modify their hair to conform to a white the greater part as a type of survival. Altering their all-natural hair texture served Black people move by means of modern society much more effortlessly underneath the…
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Revel in the Garden Installations of Landscape Designer Piet Oudolf
Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf is internationally famous for his garden installations — from the UK to mainland Europe, to the High Line park in New York City. Now, as winter descends upon the Northern hemisphere and gardeners close their beds and open their minds to new sources of inspiration for the coming season, a book from Monacelli Press takes a deep dive into Oudolf’s most personal garden: Hummelo. An overview of the Hummelo property in the Netherlands (Image by Arjan Otten) Co-written by the titular plantsman and Noel Kingsbury, Oudolf Hummelo (2021, Monacelli Press) captures work that began in 1982, when Piet and his wife Anja purchased an old farmhouse outside the eastern Netherlands village of Hummelo, and moved…
Beautiful Art Of Landscaping
