Mar 20, 2020
Black is Beautiful
Yes we rode/ride the White Nile and Conquer it with twist of our hips snaps of our head and a Queens attitude. #FlashbackFriday
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Black is Beautiful
Yes we rode/ride the White Nile and Conquer it with twist of our hips snaps of our head and a Queens attitude. #FlashbackFriday
Monday’s Fearless Muse.....
Black , Native in the USA . We Got This.
Pam Grier
Photographer Harry Langdon
Love Princess Elizabeth of Toro’s definition of the Queen of Sheba....
“The Queen of Sheba is my idea of a woman who had everything. She was beautiful, she had a kingdom, she was powerful and she was clever. From her union with King Solomon Menelik I was born. He was the first King of Ethiopia which has a unity with the Chwezi and Bito dynasties of Kitara and Toro in Uganda. “ Princess Elizabeth of Toro
Elizabeth Christobel Edith Bagaaya Akiiki of Toro in 1936, a princess in one of the five, 15th century-old kingdoms on the Ugandan border. The kingdom, which is actually called, “Toro,” was affiliated with ancient Egyptian rule and practices; subjects buried their royals in the same way one would an Egyptian Pharaoh.
Thursday Thoughts “ While revolutionaries as individual can be murdered, you cannot kill Ideas” Thomas Sankara
Artist Aida Mulluneh
An Ethiopian Artist who is one of the leading experts on photography from Africa, she has been a jury member on several photography competitions most notably the Sony World Photography Awards 2017 and the World Press Photo Contest 2017. She has also been on various panel discussions on photography in events such as African Union cultural summit, Art Basel and Tedx/Johannesburg.
Romare Beardon. Paintings Collages and Tings
#FlashbackFriday
This striking set of hirsute heads was produced in the second half of the 17th century by a French engraver named François Chauveau. It's as though he has traveled forward in time to select elements from Chewbacca / Planet of the Apes & Star Trek to combine with the grotesque motif popularized during the Renaissance. These are 10 of 19 plates of grotesque masks dedicated to Jean de Leins, goldsmith to the Queen of England and published by Jacques van Merlen in Paris. Chauveau was a renowned engraver with royal pension and favour among his peers. Check out the Met.
Kansai Yamamoto first showed in London in 1971, His singular aesthetic—typically overloaded with bold colors and Asiatic-inspired prints sets him apart from other designers at the time.—
“Kansai chose his own models and wanted the sessions to be ethnically mixed (and rightly so), but this was very much the exception for the time. There’s a determination in his eyes, looking straight at you at the centre back of the image above, sat behind Marie Helvin (who Kansai discovered) and who was shooting here for British Vogue, very early in her career, if not for the first time, before she became more widely known. “ Clive Arrowsmith
Yakuza Tattoos
1880s-90s Irezumi