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Hair Wars, Hot Irons and the Art of Black Hair

September 10th, 2008 · No Comments

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Sign in shop window on Fredrick Douglass Avenue in Harlem

Saw the above sign in a window while out on a stroll in Harlem over the weekend and it made me think of “Hot Irons” Andrew Dosunmu’s documentary that covers some of the characters and out-of-this-world hair styles highlighted at the Hair Wars show in Detroit. Hair as art, as quoted in the movie trailer below.

Trailer for “Hot Irons”: a film by Andrew Dosunmu

See also: Crowning Glory - Part Deux - Contemporary African Hair brilliant post over at Sci-Cultura.

Tags: film · photography · fashion · race

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