🗂️ COUCHDATE AFRO INDO ARCHIVE RELEASE #01 - “NATIVE HAIR DRESSING”
We have been quietly working on the couchdate AFRO INDO ARCHIVE for the last 2 years. This has comprised of months of internet research, scouring databases, digging through digital archives, and traveling to rare book stores across the country. OUR MISSION IS SIMPLE - TO FIND AND SHARE PROOF OF OUR GREATNESS
Prints are 11”x17”, hand-numbered, and limited to 200 copies. Free shipping
“NATIVE HAIR DRESSING” comes via a first press tipped plate. Shown are 2 coastal Swahili women using a traditional wooden hair comb/pick. This particular style of comb in this region often had a circular motif. All sources indicate this was a photograph taken by the Coutinho Brothers, in Zanzibar circa 1900-1906. If not them then most likely their brief partner A.C Gomes and his son, who had the other well known photography studio in East Africa at the same time.
All prints are painstakingly reproduced in archival quality from as close to the source material as we can get. Going through multiple 1200DPI scans (that’s what National Geographic uses), zero editing enhancement, printed with pigment inks on archival paper.
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🗂️ COUCHDATE AFRO INDO ARCHIVE RELEASE #01 - “NATIVE HAIR DRESSING”
We have been quietly working on the couchdate AFRO INDO ARCHIVE for the last 2 years. This has comprised of months of internet research, scouring databases, digging through digital archives, and traveling to rare book stores across the country. OUR MISSION IS SIMPLE - TO FIND AND SHARE PROOF OF OUR GREATNESS
Prints are 11”x17”, hand-numbered, and limited to 200 copies. Free shipping
“NATIVE HAIR DRESSING” comes via a first press tipped plate. Shown are 2 coastal Swahili women using a traditional wooden hair comb/pick. This particular style of comb in this region often had a circular motif. All sources indicate this was a photograph taken by the Coutinho Brothers, in Zanzibar circa 1900-1906. If not them then most likely their brief partner A.C Gomes and his son, who had the other well known photography studio in East Africa at the same time.
All prints are painstakingly reproduced in archival quality from as close to the source material as we can get. Going through multiple 1200DPI scans (that’s what National Geographic uses), zero editing enhancement, printed with pigment inks on archival paper.
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