Self-stereotyping Individualists: Exactitudes

People who share tightly defined styles

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Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have worked together since October 1994. Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 14 years….
…They call their series Exactitudes: a contraction of exact and attitude. By registering their subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses and a strictly observed dress code, Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people’s attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity.

This website should be interesting research for anyone involved in character design, because it shows the amazing variety of people who like to subscribe to a particular visual stereotype. > Link.

A Few Changes

I’ve been doing a bit of housekeeping and you might notice that a few things have been moved around.

The “About” page has gone. – It took up too much space and communicated very little.

There’s a new “Archive” page that gives you month by month access to older blog posts, as well as a means of browsing for topics by tags..

The list of past students has moved from the sidebar (See “Alumni” comment below).

There’s a new page called “Alumni“, that gives you access to 3rd year students blogs of years gone by. Learn from their triumphs and their mistakes! (At least the ones that they admit to.) :¬D