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Photographs

Golden-brown curly hair seen from behind, falling to the shoulders of a cream knit top, against a plain cloth backdrop.
Plate 1. Curly hair from behind, dry, falling to the shoulders.
Long light-brown hair with soft blonde ends, seen from behind, against a tall window with dark vertical frames and pale daylight.
Plate 2. Long hair with lightened ends, seen from behind against a tall window.
The lower length of straight brown hair with sun-lightened ends curling under onto a pale gray shoulder, against a plain wall.
Plate 3. The lower length of straight hair, sun-lightened ends curling under.
The back of a man’s head and neck in black and white, with hair cut short and tapered close at the ear and nape.
Plate 4. The back of a head cut short and tapered at the ear and nape, in black and white.
A hand holding curved steel shears upright beside the dry, tightly coiled hair of a head seen from the side, in a blurred room.
Plate 5. Curved shears held over dry, tightly coiled hair. A curl cut in Marisol’s chair is done the same way, dry and one curl at a time, and wet only at the end to check the shape.
Two white and pale green cutting combs with wide and fine teeth, one with a ruler marked along its edge, on a black table.
Plate 6. Two cutting combs, one with a ruler marked along its edge, on a dark table.

Plates 7 and 8, drawn

Two things from the room, drawn by hand and not photographed. The ink is the room after dark.

Plate 7. A paper fan of the kind that hangs over a mirror, drawn with forty-six holes and no two alike.
Plate 8. A salon cape on its hook, the hem striped, with the shade of a pierced screen falling across it.

Credits

Photographs from Pexels, free to use under the Pexels terms. They were cropped and lightly color-balanced and nothing else was changed.

  • Plate 1Olha RuskykhPexels, photo 6101917, cropped to the hair and shoulders.
  • Plate 2Mathilde LangevinPexels, photo 14792102, cropped to the head and the window.
  • Plate 3Eugenia RemarkPexels, photo 16157613, cropped to the lower length of the hair.
  • Plate 4FelixPexels, photo 20039949, cropped to the back of the head and neck.
  • Plate 5Wesley NovaisPexels, photo 38313949, cropped to the hand, the shears and the hair.
  • Plate 6cottonbro studioPexels, photo 3992852, cropped to two combs.
  • Plates 7 and 8Drawn for this siteNot photographs.
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