Okay so here’s the lowdown. I found 4 sets of medium format negatives while I was thrift shop hunting a few weeks ago. They were sitting in a box of old vintage photographs in these plastic sleeves, and from what I could tell, they had been taken sometime in the 50’s. So obviously I brought them home, and today finally had them scanned in, and holy wow they are beautiful!!
NOW this is where I need the Internet’s help. I would absolutely love to find the women in these photographs/the photographer who took them. The only info I have is that the negatives were found in a thrift store on Hull St in Richmond, VA. They are medium format, and judging by the style of dress, made in 1940-1950. The owner of the thrift store had no idea where they came from. I’m posting the best/clearest scans of the images, so if y’all could reblog the shit out of this, I’m hoping we can find the owners of these amazing images.
Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng is a Malaysian actress, best known for performing her own stunts in the Hong Kong action films that brought her to fame in the early 1990s. Born in Ipoh, Malaysia, she was chosen by People as one of the “50 Most Beautiful People in the World” in 1997.
She is best known in the Western world for her roles in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, playing Wai Lin, and the multiple Academy Award-winning Chinese-language martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in 2000. In 2008, the film critic website Rotten Tomatoes ranked her the greatest action heroine of all time. (X)
So there was a Trump rally at my school a few weeks ago. They erected a 9 foot wall outside our Union Building. In an attempt to devalue their display, I jumped over it. Just found this image of the event.
Firstly I’d like to say a wall will not be built. Logistically it simply isn’t going to happen. But on a more grave note is what the idea of the wall stands for. It stands to dehumanize a group of people. It represents the fact that there is so much more progress to be made in this country.
Tear down Trump’s imaginary wall one figurative brick at a time. We can do this.
After being rejected by countless agencies who “already have a black model”, Liberian model Deddeh Howard teamed up with photographer Raffael Dickreuter to meticulously recreate high-profile campaigns by the likes of Gucci and Dior in a photo series titled ‘Black Mirror’ – aiming to draw attention to the fashion industry’s need for diversity. (x)