Mar 20, 2025 - Sale 2697

Sale 2697 - Lot 398

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(WOMEN'S HISTORY--BEAUTY.) "Our Hair" poster and accompanying book. Double-sided poster: 22 x 17 inches; two folds, minimal wear. Book: 8, [56] pages. Quarto, 12 x 8¾ inches, illustrated wrappers; moderate dampstaining and minor wear. [Emeryville, CA: Red Rooster Publications, 1980]

Additional Details

The book "Our Hair" has no title page, but begins with 8 pages of text: an introduction promises to "introduce styles for the 80s," followed by interviews with stylist Joyce Gordon on "Our Hair," with braid artist Kalimah, and with makeup artist Gail Mack on "Our Skin." The remainder of the book is devoted to photographs of their work on a variety of models in both color and black and white, artistically rendered by photographer Abdul Raheem Muhammad, who was also the copyright holder.

The poster serves as an advertisement for the book. One side reads simply "Our Hair" with ordering information. The verso promotes a companion volume (not present) titled "Our Hair: Technical Manual." It is billed as "A Style Book & Spanish Bi-Lingual Manual for the Student."

We can find no mention of this book or poster in OCLC or elsewhere, but a Berkeley salon called "Our Hair by Joyce Gordon" was listed in Bay-area newspapers in 1984.