Glory Angelica Dass Pantone
Angelicas work goes beyond museums and is used in classrooms.
Angelica dass pantone. Pantone for skin tone. Using an 1111 pixel swatch from her subjects faces Dass matches them to corresponding Pantone colors creating an abundant and unique catalog of skin tones that reflects the worlds diversity beyond the categorizations we have long been confined to. Angelica Dass By Fiona Macdonald 7th November 2017.
Exploring You in a World of We. Shes on a mission to capture examples of every skin color in the world to prove that diversity goes beyond the standard confines of white black red and yellow. In her ongoing project Humanae Madrid-based Brazilian photographer Angélica Dass has set out to catalogue every conceivable human skin tone.
A collage of Dasss portraits. February 18 2016 at 640 pm EST. She photographs people pinpoints their skin tone and places them on a color chart.
One woman has taken the bold step of putting the issue right back in our face demonstrating just how futile first impressions really are. Race ethnicity and skin color have been dividing factors among humankind for centuries but Brazilian photographer Angélica Dass is seeking to break down the barriers with her latest project Humanae. Born in 1979 in Rio de Janeiro and having grown up in a multiracial family she is acutely aware of how small differences in colour can swell into large misconceptions and stereotypes about race.
Its a project in constant evolution seeking to. Angélica Dass stands in front of a collage of her work. And match a square of 11 pixels from their noses to a corresponding shade in the industrial palette Pantone.
In the Pantone scales primary colors are as important as mixed colors said Brazilian photographer and artist Angelica Dass in a TED Talk. In this personal talk hear about the inspiration behind her portrait project Humanæ and her pursuit to document humanitys true colors rather than the untrue white red black and yellow associated with race. Much of the world still remains highly segregated by access to opportunity in the shape of gender race and creed.