Street styling with an attitude not seen in fashion for another twenty years to come, Shabazz’s subjects strike poses that put supermodels to shame showing off Kangol caps and Gazelle glasses, shell-top Adidas and suede Pumas with fat laces, shearling coats and leather jackets, gold rope chains, door-knocker earrings, name belts, boom boxes, and other designer finery. For anyone who wants to know what “keepin’ it real” means, Back in the Days is the book of your dreams.
Hardcover, 7.25 x 9.75 inches, 128 pages, 80 four-colour and black-and-white photographs
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A Time Before Crack
Photographs by Jamel Shabazz
Essays by Charlie Ahearn and Terrence Jennings
Introduction by Claude Grunitzky
Afterword by James "Koe" Rodriquez
Once upon a time before crack, inner city communities were blighted by poverty and unemployment but not by the drug wars that tore families apart, destroying lives with needless violence and mindless addiction. Once upon a time before crack, pride and style were as inseparable as a beatbox and mixtape, or as a pair of shoes and matching purse. Once upon a time before crack, Jamel Shabazz was on the scene, working the streets of New York City, capturing the faces and places of an era that have long since disappeared.
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jamel shabazz taught a photography workshop for local youth for light source, a toronto non-profit photographic collective. download the slide show here (right click+save as)
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