james mollison's "the disciples"

[truegrit]

(I guess these have been around online for a while but I just found out about them.)

Photographer James Mollison has been doing this series called "The Disciples" - composite images of concert-goers which highlight the ways music and fashion generate ad hoc tribal loyalties. Like so:

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[ichbinkelsey]

These are so amazing. Thank you so much for telling me about them. I'm going to use them in a class I teach on Monday.

[truegrit]

really? that's awesome. what's the class? glad to be of service.

[ichbinkelsey]

Oh, it's this rock class I've been teaching this summer; we just got done reading this book which prompted a big discussion on social taste and the way taste tends to coalesce around certain objects/groups and be shaped by the resulting social dynamics. This project is totally perfect to illustrate that.

You would love that book, by the way.

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