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Jamel Shabazz - A Time Before Crack *First Edition*

£50.00

Publisher: Powerhouse Books
Year: 2005
Format: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Pages: 144
Size: 26 x 20cm

"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.

Best known as Hip Hop’s finest fashion photographer for his blockbuster best-selling monograph, Back in the Days, Shabazz revisited his archive and unearthed an extraordinary collection of never-before-published documentary photographs collected for this book, A Time Before Crack, a visual diary of the streets of New York City from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties, Shabazz’s distinctive photographs reveal the families, the poses, and the players who made this age extraordinary."