Art History in the News: African American Fashion and Photography

I found this on Jezebel.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/21/AR2010052101654_2.html?sid=ST2010052101774

“The velvet opera coat was stretched out on a bed of archival paper and tucked into a person-size box that resembled a humble coffin. A clutch of Smithsonian curators and restoration experts gently lifted it — like scholarly pallbearers with white gloved hands and keen eyes for precision — onto an examination table for loving inspection.”

Bret Webster Images

I also found this website via Flick Filosopher.  I like his work, he makes even the everyday objects seem otherworldly.

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