Research Catalog

Title

Crowns : my hair, my soul, my freedom / Sandro Miller, Angela Bassett, Patricia Smith.

Author

Miller, Sandro

Publication

Milano, Italy : Skira, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bassett, Angela
• Smith, Patricia, 1955-

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations; 36 cm

Summary

• Sandro Miller is a 60-year-old Caucasian male with ancestral roots in Italy, Germany, and America. He is married to a most beautiful 47-year-old Black woman, Claude-Aline Nazaire, whose ancestral roots are in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and America. His beautiful wife was the inspiration for this photographic project, a documentation of the creative, prideful, and personally expressive reality that announces Black heritage and Black tradition. The author shared the pointed, upbeat ideal of Black self-expression and idealization. He documented body art and many unspoken ways in which Black women declare their freedom - by choice and sensibility - by sculpting their managed, structured hair. Each portrait in this project recognizes and honors women's inventive power and beauty while celebrating, at the same time, their social endurance and cultural memory - the triumph of biology and genetics. -- Adapted from page [6]
• This book of photography, shot in Chicago, USA, Johannesburg, South Africa, and Dakar, Senegal, features headshot portraits of 108 Black women, featuring highly crafted hairstyles. It also includes brief quotes from the women about their hair.

Alternative Title

My hair, my soul, my freedom

Subject

• Miller, Sandro
• African American women > Pictorial works
• Hair > Pictorial works
• Hairstyles
• Hairdressing of Black people
• Hairdressing of African Americans
• Portrait photography
• African American women
• Hair
• Secondary sex characteristics
• United States

Genre/Form

Pictorial works.

Contents

Crowns / Sandro Miller -- The angels are amongst us / Angela Bassett -- Introduction / Patricia Smith -- Nap unleashed / Patricia Smith -- [The photographs] -- Acknowledgements.

Call Number

Sc+ G 23-53

ISBN

• 8857245586
• 9788857245584

OCLC

1241443224

Author

Miller, Sandro, photographer.

Title

Crowns : my hair, my soul, my freedom / Sandro Miller, Angela Bassett, Patricia Smith.

Publisher

Milano, Italy : Skira, [2021]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Bassett, Angela, writer of supplementary text.

Smith, Patricia, 1955- writer of supplementary text.

Research Call Number

Sc+ G 23-53

JQG 22-51