![]() ![]() Inspired by these photos - both Dandridge and Horne get their due - as well as the remarkable lives of two of her aunts, model Mildred Taylor and performer Margaret Tynes, Gainer began in January 2011 to compile the images (and just as importantly, the stories) on a Tumblr called Vintage Black Glamour. "I knew about Dorothy Dandridge and Lena Horne, but who knew that there were so many other Negro starlets nipping at their heels?" she writes. ![]() Gainer was researching a novel about black beauty contestants in the 1950s leafing through magazines like Jet, Tan, Hue and Our World, she was surprised to see young African-American women getting the same breathless media coverage as today's stars. Vintage Black Glamour began with a visit to Harlem's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. ![]() The force is strong throughout Nichelle Gainer's Vintage Black Glamour, a carefully curated collection - packed with historical sketches and political commentary - of photographs spanning nearly a century of black beauty and style. ![]() "The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains." ![]()
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