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