Gallery
Melanie Bilenker, Pinning Series: Comb, Gather, Pin, Smooth, 2013. Hair on paper, gold, mineral crystal 1 3/4 × 1 1/8 × 1/8 in. each. Courtesy of the artist.
Nestor Ramljak (Nonpalidece), Juanchi Baleirón (Los Pericos). Movistar Fri Music Festival, Centro Cultural Konex, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2021. Mariano Garcia / Alamy.
John H. Breck, Inc., Possibly Eileen McKenna getting her hair washed, ca. 1965. Silver gelatin print on paper, 10 x 8 in. Breck Girls Collection, ca. 1936-1995, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, nmah.ac.0651.
Portrait Bust of a Flavian Woman (Fonseca Bust), early second century AD. Marble. Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Hall of the Emperors.
Anonymous, British, 18th century; ascribed to Miss Heel, British, 18th century; after Mr. Perwig, British, 18th century. Top and Tail, 1777. Hand-colored etching with stipple. (plate): 12 11/16 x 7 13/16 in.; (sheet): 14 1/16 x 8 9/16 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959, 59.533.5.
Untitled (Case with portraits of a man and woman and hair ornaments), ca. 1870s. Photographs on enamel, framed in copper alloy metal frames, with hair, and leather and velvet case. (image): 3.5 x 3 cm (1 3/8 x 1 3/16 in.); (case): 9 x 5 x 1 cm (3 9/16 x 1 15/16 x 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John Cook Memorial Fund 2017.9.
Hans Langseth photo portrait by Nils C Jorgenson—was a Norwegian-American who held the record for the world’s longest beard. Photo-fox / Alamy.
Human male beard hair super close-up view. Magnification about 100 times, 2017. Perov Stanislav / Alamy.
George Gerrard, Two Coach Horses with a Coachman, 1791. Oil on canvas. © University of Manchester, The Tabley House Collection. Picture credit: Tabley House Trust.
Hand of a cello player with bow. Photo, Torche O. Istock.
Rod Stewart Promotional photo of English rock musician about 1980. Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy.
The Three Stooges, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, and Curly Howard [American vaudeville and screen comedy act in the early to mid-20th century], 2011. GR Collection / Alamy.
Most of the time a wig serves the purpose of making sure that other people feel comfortable; in my defiance I believed they had no right to that comfort.
—Vicki Weiqi Yang, “Field Notes on Hair”
Drag queen, television host, singer, producer, writer, and actor RuPaul Andre Charles is shown performing on stage during a concert appearance, 1994. John Atashian / Alamy.
Angela Davis in 1975. Courtesy: CSU Archives / Everett Collection / Alamy.
Chewbacca. Photo, Yuri Turkov. Shutterstock.
Urrrrggghh!
—Chewbacca
Bette Davis Hair Test, from the film Now, Voyager, 1942. Directed by Irving Rapper. Entertainment Pictures / Alamy.
I’d like to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
—Bette Davis
British, Viscount Admiral Lord Nelson, ca. 1805. Bust: gold wire, glass paste; anchor and border: glass, half-pearls, human hair; frame: gold wire, silk, copper-gilt. Overall (with bail): 2 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Glenn Tilley Morse Collection, Bequest of Glenn Tilley Morse, 1950, 50.187.3.
John Varden, Hair Locks of the Presidents, Washington, D.C., 1855. Wood, hair, green cord. (overall): 18 1/2 in x 13 in. National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, nmah_524091.
Miniature Poodle, 2022. Boxerista96. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International .
Young Buddhist monks shaving each other’s heads in preparation for a holy festival event, 2011. Luang Prabang, Laos. Laszlo Mates / Alamy.
Graciela Iturbide, La niña del peine, Juchitán, México (Girl with Hair Comb, Juchitán, Mexico), 1980, printed 1990. Gelatin silver print. (image): 22.25 × 15 cm (8 3/4 × 5 7/8 in.); (sheet): 25.4 × 20.32 cm (10 × 8 in.). National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Kyle Roberts), 2015.19.4668.2.
Hair style of Himba women, tribespeople living in northern Namibia, 2017. Konstantin Kalishko / Alamy.
Gerrit van Honthorst, Samson and Delilah, oil on canvas, c. 1616. (Dutch, 1590–1656). 50 13/16 x 37 in. Courtesy, The Cleveland Museum of Art.
