Madam Jones Vanishing Cream
Before the explosion of Scanners,Photoshop and other image manipulation tools, I used to do collages, often using Ephemera such as this. Finding ways to isolate areas that i wanted to capture was a challenge for me back then- often leaving me frustrated with the final result.
Due to todays "Snow Day" in Chicago, and not being able to safely drive to my studio (and back) I chose to go through some older files- and ran across these beauties, that I thought I'd share w/ my flickr homies!
The other aspect to these scanned label images is their complete innocence, in the imagery displayed. For not only were these products created to "lighten" the skin of people of color (which I really don't get - White folks want to tan and look darker- people of color want to look "fairer"- ain't nobody really happy w/what they were born with!!) they were created to be marketed (a word that wasn't used back in the '40's and '50's) to a targeted audience....
Enjoy!
Madam Jones Vanishing Cream
Before the explosion of Scanners,Photoshop and other image manipulation tools, I used to do collages, often using Ephemera such as this. Finding ways to isolate areas that i wanted to capture was a challenge for me back then- often leaving me frustrated with the final result.
Due to todays "Snow Day" in Chicago, and not being able to safely drive to my studio (and back) I chose to go through some older files- and ran across these beauties, that I thought I'd share w/ my flickr homies!
The other aspect to these scanned label images is their complete innocence, in the imagery displayed. For not only were these products created to "lighten" the skin of people of color (which I really don't get - White folks want to tan and look darker- people of color want to look "fairer"- ain't nobody really happy w/what they were born with!!) they were created to be marketed (a word that wasn't used back in the '40's and '50's) to a targeted audience....
Enjoy!