Showing posts with label rachel papo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rachel papo. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Israeli Military Brows Part III

Here's the last of our posts on the eyebrows of the IDF.

There are many more photos at the web site for Serial No. 3817131. Check it.






There is more great (non-brow) photography at Rachel Papo's site. And one more tip of the Golani beret to the reader who sent the original link!

Monday, September 1, 2008

Israeli Military Brows Part II

As promised, a continuation of the brow survey from Rachel Papo's Serial No. 3817131 project.


There are so many great things about this photo:


Final installment right here in 24 hours.

Rachel Papo's Israeli Military Brows

Photographer Rachel Papo has mounted an interesting project. A dedicated reader (thank you!) sent us a link to it, and if you really give a damn we'll let you scope it out in detail.

It's right here. It's called Serial no. 3817131.

But in the interest of boiling it down, it involves photos of women who are completing their compulsory military service in the Israeli Defense Forces. There are a couple of ways you can approach it.

You can read the faces of these young women as a marker of the modern search for identity, the struggle of individual femininity against institutionalized – or even mindless – obedience to authority:



Or you can look at it as a chance to see hot teenage chicks with pretty good eyebrows hanging around with guns and stuff:



Your call. We'll revisit this topic in two more postings this week.



Scroll-down confession: We jumped on the chance to view these photos in case there were army chicks in wife beaters and stuff. And there are. But we clicked through every photo truly enjoying the documentary quality of the art. This is great photography, with or without the eyebrows. More soon.