Soul Scrapbook marks the beginning of a new feature on D.I.A. – a showcase of vintage photography, album covers and anything else in the way of music related graphics. I mean, the music is where it’s at, but sometimes I get just as excited flipping through a batch of stunning photos, and this set that I’m about to share is definitely no exception.
For this first post I’m thrilled to share an amazing collection of vintage soul, jazz, funk and gospel photos I was fortunate enough to stumble upon – essentially a who’s who of all things soulful from the 50′s through the 70′s. You can click on the thumbnails above to start the slideshow or you can go directly to my new flickr page where you can view the entire set (only about 50 out of 100 are posted here). I’ll be uploading all of my scrapbook photos, mixtape covers, as well as other music related images onto this page, and I probably won’t post about it all so I’d recommend adding it to your bookmarks or checking it periodically so you don’t miss anything.
Enjoy!
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Soul
The other day I found myself looking through some stock photography for work and came across this gripping set of images taken by Axel Koester. Depicting late 80′s gang culture in LA, they serve as a great photo essay of the time, profiling The Grape Street Watts Crips and the Malditos. Stunning and terrifying at the same time, Koester successfully captures a world that most of us are only familiar with through Hollywood and the media.
You can view the whole photo set here.
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Rap
At first glance this looks like a dried up canyon on Mars or something, but in actuality it’s the groove of a vinyl record magnified 1000 times. Those clumpy parts are dust. Kind of makes me want to do a better job cleaning my records.
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Frank just got back from another trip to Africa and shared these pics of his digging adventures. It’s safe to say that nobody is iller than him when it comes to vinyl excavation.
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Record Porn
Somewhere in Africa is this room filled with records…… My man Frank from Voodoo Funk sent me these photos of an untapped cache of records one of his buyers in Africa found. One can only imagine how long they’ve been there and what circumstances brought them there. Regardless, this is the type of thing record collectors dream of, and nowadays rarely happens. It’s sad to see so much music disposed of like this, but luckily it’s all being excavated and shipped off to the states where they will find new homes and new ears. Again, stay tuned for an African mix. Hopefully I can get to it this weekend.
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Cool photo essay on music and media up on Slate today that examines the evolution of human interaction with music. It’s something that at one point used to be a very physical thing, but has basically become a virtual experience as most music lives on ipod’s and computers.
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