“Voyage Dans Ma Tete: La Collection de Coiffes d’Antoine de Galbert” is on display at the Maison Rouge in Paris until September 26th. The collection consist of 400 headdresses worn by cultures all over the world; it “includes brilliantly beplumed Amazonian bonnets; sumptuously beaded, cone-shaped royal crowns worn by Yoruba chieftains, adorned with birds (symbols, according to the show’s catalog, of “the mystical power of women”); a Burmese hunter’s horned headdress, designed to inspire terror, with a monkey’s skull posed atop a bit of bear fur; as well as more modest garments, like a simple cap from India, made of felted yak hair, to protect against the rain. There’s a diadem once worn by an Uzbek bride on her wedding day, and a headband covered in cowry shells that announced the birth of a first child to a woman in Indonesia.” lamaisonrouge.org
Artist and photographer Adarsha Benjamin channels Jean Seberg and Joan of Arc; surrounded by Daniel Johnston’s drawings in Silverlake, California.
“When Scorpio Rising was — we’ve forgotten, in a sense, that it was a groundbreaker, legally. Because there are only a few flashes of nudity, genitalia, whatever in the film, I mean, they’re very, very short and, if you blink, you won’t even see them. At any rate, when it was shown, at the Cinema — it was called the Cinema on Western Avenue in Hollywood — the premiere run, someone denounced it to the Hollywood vice squad and they raided the theater and took the print. And the case had to go to the California Supreme Court to be freed and then it became, like, a landmark case of redeeming social merit. That was the phrase that was used to justify that it wasn’t pornography. And, indeed, there’s nothing pornographic about it. Somebody had to break the ice and have that kind of case at that time to establish the freedom, because, before then, the police could seize anything they wanted to…” – Kenneth Anger (Excerpt from Interview with Pam Grady)
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Clockwise From Top: (1) Tattoo of a devil (2) A tattooing expert picks design into shoulder of head gambler’s mistress. (3) Tattoo representing God of Sun, Fire and Water (4) Man’s back tattooed with image of a man dancing with a chrysanthemum, a design known as the “Gambler’s Tattoo.”
Sneakers, khaki one pieces, flannel, denim, pomade, cigarettes, rifles; nostalgia for summer days gone.
