Exactitudes

[avram]

Via Boing Boing, a fascinating site (seems to be associated with a book) showing photos of groups of a dozen people each from various subcultures (most seem to be Dutch or Chinese), all in the same pose. See, for example, these Dutch “Teknohippy” women (geek girls, we’d call ’em), or this set of “Ghoullies” (Goths), or Brazilian Surfistas, or Beijing students.

The purpose of the book is supposedly to draw attention to the contradiction between individuality and uniformity that subculture dress codes entail, but I find it much more interesting as a source of photo reference for drawing.

Comments

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

That's really cool, I like it alot. I was also fascinated by some of the different words -- ghoulies, for instance. And what are "gabbers" and "gabberbitches"?

It was also interesting to go beyond color. For instance, the ghoulies dress code looks a lot more strict than the technohippy, because the latter is more colorful. But I bet they're about equally strict. Or, if the clothing is less strict for technohippies than ghoulies, the body type is stricter.

Interesting.

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

That is definitely a pretty dang cool thing. It vaguely reminds me of the book Fruits, which is pictures of only one subset, of wackily dressed Japanese youth. :) There isn't much uniformity there though, save the rule of being, well, wacky in one's clothing colors and design choices.