NOIR COULEUR

“Albert’s photographs, largely rendered in black and white, radiate an unrelenting sense of celebration, where local community events re-centered the ‘Black is Beautiful’ movement of 1960’s America within a British context. While they adopt conventional markers of pageantry, these contests existed to champion a markedly different beauty ideal to that which was expounded elsewhere in mid-century Britain, creating spaces in which a new generation of young black women could affirm their identity.” Text by Monique Todd via AnOther Mag (2016) … Holley modeling jewelry at Blythe Road, Hammersmith, London, early 1970s, from the portfolio of ‘Black Beauty Pageants’ by Raphael Albert.

Irving Penn - Two Cat Women, New Guinea, 1970

Irving Penn - Hippie Family, 1967

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Two men in Benin City, Nigeria c.1950 Check this blog!

Untitled, 1969,by Malick Sidibé  

Irving Penn, Japanese Girl, 1980

Pointe Noire (1975) by Maurice Bibilou “Pellosh”

R.D.C 1974 by Maurice Bibilou “Pellosh”

Assembly Line, Detroit, 1955 [x]

Sur la route d’Acapulco, Mexique, 1966. From Le Voyage mexicain series. [x]

Cameroon, 1986, by Jacques Toussele