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Title: Something Cool: dress codes of various social groups
Post by: PintOGuinness on May 12, 2003, 09:45:53 am
http://www.exactitudes.com/

Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek have worked together since October 1994. Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 8 years. Rotterdam's heterogeneous, multicultural street scene remains a major source of inspiration for Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek, although since 1998 they have also worked in cities abroad.
They call their series Exactitudes: a contraction of exact and attitude. By registering their subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses and a strictly observed dress code, Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people's attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity. The apparent contradiction between individuality and uniformity is, however, taken to such extremes in their arresting objective-looking photographic viewpoint and stylistic analysis that the artistic aspect clearly dominates the purely documentary element.
Title: Something Cool: dress codes of various social groups
Post by: rosieposy87 on May 12, 2003, 09:57:26 am
Oh this is so incredibly freaky yet sooooo cool! Its really interesting too, where did u find this jason?
Title: Something Cool: dress codes of various social groups
Post by: skyestar on May 12, 2003, 12:38:11 pm
i'm still confused after reading it 6 times.
Title: Something Cool: dress codes of various social groups
Post by: David Hart on May 12, 2003, 05:22:51 pm
WOW! This is really cool. A friend of mine had a photography exhibit of hundreds of random people wearing an afro wig...it was really cool, just thought I'd mention it.
Title: Something Cool: dress codes of various social groups
Post by: Dancernl on May 12, 2003, 08:44:31 pm
Are they based out of Rotterdam NY?  That's kind of near my friends and I visit them all the time!  hmmm...maybe I will see some of these people walking the streets of downtown Albany, lol.
Title: Something Cool: dress codes of various social groups
Post by: tricia on May 12, 2003, 09:01:28 pm
I think it's Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Title: Something Cool: dress codes of various social groups
Post by: Dancernl on May 12, 2003, 09:17:38 pm
Quote from: "DixieChck615"
I think it's Rotterdam, the Netherlands


LMAO!  Yeah, I'm a dork.  Maybe I should have taken that geography class afterall.....