thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 9月4日 00時54分

Photo by @williamalbertallard // I’ve discovered some images from an essay I did in 2008 for National Geographic magazine on New York City’s vanishing garment district, a story that was never published in the U.S. edition of Geographic although several of the foreign editions ran it. The garment district, a neighborhood that once had streets flooded with racks of clothes being pushed about and hundreds of thousands of manufacturing workers has dimmed considerably but there are still designers and clothes makers continuing the tradition. I found myself haunting some of the fashion shows by garment district designers. I didn’t go out to photograph models on the runway very much but more often wandered about the backstage areas where makeup artists and hair stylists, manicurists, helpers of all kinds, applied their talents to so many young and often reed slender women of various hues. It was a pleasure to witness the chaos of beauty evolving and displayed and trying to take that chaos and make order of it in single images. While watching a lovely, long-haired woman having her hair braided, I couldn’t help but think of the 16th Century Italian Early Renaissance painter Sandro Bottecilli whose subjects often had long hair, sometimes elaborately braided. And some of Bottecilli’s beauties, as was the case with this young girl, had in their tresses a hint of auburn, that rarest of hair colors. Look how wonderfully it graces the soft shape of her face. I can imagine her transformed to another place in another century. I wonder where she is now. #hair #fashion #garmentdistrict #newyorkcity #nyc

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