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Hans Feurer - Vogue Hommes France 1975, with Grace Jones

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[Art] Hassan Hajjaj, "My Rock Stars Experimental", Volume 1, 2012  

Morroccan-born photographer Hassan Hajjaj, showcases a number of bold, portraits from an ongoing series he had been creating since 1998. The series is a mixture of distinctive African, Arab, & Asian patterns, contrasted with unique and stylish subjects; each who tell their own story within the frame. His work depicts an idea of globalization, pushing the lines of cultural identity.

Hajjaj's series is currently on exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.

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greens.

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Port-au-Prince 1987, Cité Soleil by Alex Webb

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Tobias Hall Miles Davis - All Blues

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Vincent Moon filming artists from the Debre Berhan circus.

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Ornette Coleman by Lee Friedlander

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Touki Bouki (dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty — 1973)

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Film ≫ Martin Scorsese digitally restores Djibril Diop Mambéty’s masterpiece “Touki Bouki”

Martin Scorcese’s World Cinema Project recently compiled and digitally restored six classic films from around the world. Among the collection is Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty’s 1973 masterpiece, Touki Bouki. Combining French New Wave and avant-garde film styles in a unique way unseen in the 1970s, the film shares the tale of a Dakar couple that dreams of one day journeying to Paris.

View the trailer here

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It's not the cost of the suit that counts, but the worth of the man inside it.

Ferolle, "Sapeurs" (2014)

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[Documentary] "Sapeurs"

In a beautifully crafted short documentary, Guinness explores the eccentrically dressed men of the Congo known as the 'Sapeurs'. This subculture of stylish gentleman pride themselves on moving onward from being victims of circumstance, using their interest in many cultures to influence their style. A life not dictated by wealth, but creativity, respect and boldness. The Sapeurs illustrate that environment does not always dictate one's limits of expression.

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