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

[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.