She and Dolph were quite a striking pair.
If they ever had a kid he could have cracked the Brooklyn Bridge in two with his jaw
And the child’s body could have naturally produced cocaine.
Grace is one of a kind, such a fantastic artist. Her cover to “Island Life” is one of the greatest album covers ever, has been on my wall for years.
the album cover
she’s so badass
Smoking looks like shit no matter what. But she looks cool otherwise.
Looks like they added the sigaret after, to me…
Cpelling
Comeone needs a spell?
Grace Jones has serious screen presence. I knew her first as Zula from Conan the Destroyer.
I sadly only know her from Hell A Cyberpunk Thriller
How much of that is in-camera?
Early photographic treatments had terrible response for longer wavelengths, which is why wrinkles looked fucking awful. It lost all the subsurface scattering that makes skin soft. Basically you got the blue channel from any modern color photograph. I suspect that effect could work in color, in 1981, with some goofy color balance and incorrect lighting… but I’m not certain. I know color photos made black subjects look dark as hell until wooden furniture catalogs forced Kodak to develop a better formulation. I don’t think the typical effect was quite so… onyx.
The effect could also be thrown by the color of the jacket and the wall. They look black and beige, respectively, but the jacket could be burgundy and get lost in a blue gel filter. Maybe only the red of her lips is touched-up.
It’s a black and white photo colourised by hand.
Well that’s fucking boring.
Good job on the color grading in what are technically the midtones, but come on, I wanted this to somehow be real light hitting this badass bitch.
Here’s Grace Jones utterly unable to control herself while comedian Micky Flanagan talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwkRoGhe-RI
I am playing DnD right now (during an insanely tense boss fight, thus the distraction so I don’t cry because I am effectively out of it anyway due to overpowered spells that I can’t complain about because they exist) but I am itching to watch this and saving it immediately…
Also I made a meme earlier about ADHD people using brackets all the time. Shoot me.
What a ride, thanks for sharing
Does it count as black face if you’re already black?
let me be square with you …
Just needs the imbedded lenses and she’d would’ve been an amazing Molly Millions.
Saw her play a few years back and she can hula hoop through the entirety of Slave To The Rhythm like a champ.
Not to mention she was in her sixties at the time. if your talking about the royal command performance. Also performed a whole set naked around that time.
