Robin, my, goes “That’s not you,” which I guess is a compliment to me. I showed Sharon Stone her redo with Lauren London and she goes, “Oh my gosh, she’s absolutely beautiful, this girl.” Faye Dunaway, I was shooting in Cannes and I pulled up the picture she inspired for “Mommie Dearest.” She saw it and goes, “You delete that right now!” and she screamed at me. That was my goal, to be the anti version of that. You grow up in your teen years having to fight this idea of what beauty is because you’ve been poured this thing into you in your whole life. And when we saw Black girls, it was literally like “National Geographic.” Particularly for young Black males, it does something to your perspective on Black women and Black beauty. We always saw these really pretty, perky blond girls running up the beach and they always seemed to be having fun and getting photographed. I recognized that my mom and my aunts, their beauty wasn’t amplified. I was born in ’75, so I’m a child of the ’80s. People don’t tend to want to focus on us that way, so I did.Ī lot of came from what had impacted me growing up. I’ve always been attached to people and against the white sides, but nobody has pulled me to the side to say, ‘Why don’t we focus on you to be creative for once?’” That made me feel really good because you wouldn’t that from Vivica Fox Garcelle. They would say to me, “Nobody has pulled me to the side to ask me to do a creative shoot. So a lot of them came in and if I was familiar with them and I liked them, I’d say, “Hey, I wanted you to be aware that I’m working on this photography book on African Americans where I re-create scenes from movies and iconic images.” And anybody that I asked - I think with the exception of two people - immediately loved what I presented to them. I used to be the lead photographer at a gifting suite. Here, Augustus describes the process of putting the book together. I wanted to do something impactful that I could focus on the Black community and say, ‘Listen, I was here as an artist at one point.’” “I just thought as unfortunate as this whole thing is, at least he left the world all of this incredible talent to let us know that he was here. “That day, no matter how you felt about him, his music was everywhere,” said Augustus. The idea to make a book re-creating iconic Hollywood moments with an all-Black cast came on Jthe day Michael Jackson died. I think a lot of it has changed for the better now, but it definitely wasn’t something that was focused upon.”Īs a rising photographer in the early aughts, Augustus resolved to put Black people at the forefront of his work. “So I got that culturally from them but as far as imagery, it was not prevalent at all when I was growing up. “I got to watch my mom and aunts do their cornrows and put on makeup, put beads in their hair,” he added. They didn’t put Black women in those roles like that. “And all of that is absolutely beautiful but as a young teen, it didn’t look appealing the Lynda Carters, Farrah Fawcetts and Jessica Langes were always made to look. It’s bro-y but laced with classic dating-show tropes like “Can I steal you for a second?” and instant connections that form after a surface-level conversation near a hot tub.“Their breasts were tied to their waistbands, they had four or five babies wrapped around them and they had baskets on their head,” he recalled by phone in advance of his book’s launch. TBH, I’m not completely sure who this show is actually for. Except, in the words of Vinny, there are “no roses, no keys, no clocks. It’s going to be mad uncomfortable, but hopefully things get fun later?ĭouble Shot is basically a mash-up of every dating show you’ve ever seen. By that I mean.there’s really nothing you can do. That’s why they’re adding another show to their reality résumés and trying to get wifed-up on Double Shot of Love With DJ Pauly D and Vinny.īefore you watch this show, I’d suggest you approach it the same way you might approach taking a literal double shot of tequila at the Jersey Shore. Now, they’ve decided that JK, they actually do want to find love and that Ed Sheeran was truly onto something when he said the club isn’t the best place to find a lover. We’ve all watched DJ Pauly D and Vinny Guadagnino avoid “falling in love at the Jersey Shore” for a decade.
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