singsomelyrical ([info]singsomelyrical) wrote in [info]blackfolk,
2006-09-04 14:01:00
I bought a book (Lord forgive me but I forgot the title) of photography of African women. The photography is lovely but it's a bit grainy because of my scanner. I thought you guys might like the photos so I'm sharing them.

Disclaimer: Not all of the photos are worksafe. This post is picture heavy so dial-up users may wish to skip it. You've been warned.


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[info]sardonic_girl

September 4 2006, 18:15:08 UTC 5 years ago

These are really lovely.

[info]singsomelyrical

September 4 2006, 18:18:04 UTC 5 years ago

I know. Every time I write a story, I use a photo to help me picture what my characters look like. Every since I got this book, all my characters have looked like these women.

[info]sardonic_girl

5 years ago

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[info]thebigbadbutch

September 4 2006, 18:38:49 UTC 5 years ago

These women are beautiful. Thank you for posting :)

[info]eternallysacred

September 4 2006, 18:51:51 UTC 5 years ago

I have several of these

matted and framed in my home. I ran across some prints at a loc conference in Philadelphia a few years back and I think they are all SO beautiful.

[info]singsomelyrical

September 4 2006, 18:53:26 UTC 5 years ago

Re: I have several of these

I just have the postcards but I plan on getting them blown up and framed.

[info]ritahritahritah

September 4 2006, 19:40:04 UTC 5 years ago

black womem are the most beautiful women in the world imo.

[info]singsomelyrical

September 4 2006, 19:50:33 UTC 5 years ago

You ain't never lied.

[info]amaterasu_no_ki

September 4 2006, 20:07:19 UTC 5 years ago

I love these. Maybe I'm being judgemental by the pictures, but I am really loving how they can show their bodies and it doesn't have to be a sexual thing -- it's just an appreciation of their bodily beauty. It made me think about how you said the pictures "weren't work-safe" and the really conservative values Americans espouse -- these pictures can't be worksafe because even though this is how they live and work every day, it becomes eroticized in American culture just because parts of the body Americans deem as "taboo" are exposed.

The second picture was used on the front cover of my African Diaspora & the World book my first-year here at Spelman.

[info]singsomelyrical

September 4 2006, 20:09:40 UTC 5 years ago

I understand what you mean about the worksafe. I didn't want to get anyone in trouble because they look at some titties at work but I can't see how people would view these pictures as vulgar or even porngraphic in the context they're in.

[info]amaterasu_no_ki

5 years ago

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[info]dreamon_dreamer

September 4 2006, 20:54:41 UTC 5 years ago

gorgeous. i'm saying a few of these. thanks so much for sharing.

[info]jette

September 4 2006, 21:58:44 UTC 5 years ago

Very beautiful. So many of the photos look so... joyful. Like the person who is being portrayed has some sort of deep confidence and assurance of who they are and where they are in their body. I don't know if I am projecting there... hopefully you know what I mean. I just came from this extra-crunchy hippie yoga class and we did a lot of heart openers - don't mind me.

[info]misslaura

September 4 2006, 22:57:06 UTC 5 years ago

Luda was right

All the best women all reside in Africa!

Those women are so beautiful, sans makeup, botox, weave, Baby Phat etc...

[info]mizcheyenne

September 6 2006, 02:38:50 UTC 5 years ago

Re: Luda was right

You killed it with Luda, LOL.

But yes.

[info]toodani

September 5 2006, 02:20:43 UTC 5 years ago

I love the detail of the jewelry. The original bling lol. Especially picture 9.

[info]ladyjax

September 5 2006, 03:47:06 UTC 5 years ago

I believe these come from the book, "Women of the African Ark." Pomegranate put out a calendar of these prints for a few years (and they still might).

[info]stagger_lee77

September 5 2006, 05:47:16 UTC 5 years ago

do you mind if i add this to my memories?

[info]aphrodite_san

September 5 2006, 06:26:45 UTC 5 years ago

Beautiful.

[info]lindito

September 5 2006, 09:52:36 UTC 5 years ago

this is a public post, so i mentioned/showed it to one of my friends on yahoo.

her first reaction to the first picture:

"gee, robinho, thank you for reminding that i don't have a clit anymore"

apparently the first picture is a post-circumcision picture. as my friend said "there's a reason she's not smiling".

(when i was at said friend's house, her mother, thinking that i was a suitor, showed me a similar set of necklaces that the mother said belonged to my friend. the second my friend saw them, she turned around and left the room -- she had gotten cut AFTER she'd had a few orgasms so she knows what she's missing.)

[info]espnchick1920

September 5 2006, 13:33:50 UTC 5 years ago

she had gotten cut AFTER she'd had a few orgasms so she knows what she's missing.)

And that's just...WRONG. The whole idea of female circumcision is wrong and illustrates the depth that some societies will go to in order to preserve male dominance. I've never really understood how a society can be successful is half of the population is oppressed. But then again...history has shown us that it does happen...

[info]jadedjade

September 5 2006, 17:53:40 UTC 5 years ago

her eyes do look a little red.


How old was you friend when she was cut?

[info]lindito

September 5 2006, 18:17:51 UTC 5 years ago

she was 20.

she thought she could get out of it before she went to the usa but then her father died and her mother made her do it.

it's weird, because that happens a lot... father goes away to university in europe or whatever and sees the light wrt female cutting, and then says that he does not want that for his daughters... and then just when the girls think that they get to escape it, he dies.

of course, in a lot of cases, the reverse is true -- the mother works to make sure it doesn't happen but the something tragic happens so it does.

there are a lot of individuals who are against it... just not enough yet to skew the curve.

[info]amour___propre

September 6 2006, 15:08:47 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks for sharing this...

[info]jadedjade

September 5 2006, 17:52:54 UTC 5 years ago

pictures are beautiful, and they just go to show the natural diversity in features, skin tones etc, that all equate to beauty that are found in africa.

[info]mizcheyenne

September 6 2006, 02:46:49 UTC 5 years ago

So beautiful.

[info]amour___propre

September 6 2006, 15:09:23 UTC 5 years ago

Great pictures.
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