Jamel Shabazz

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Jamel Shabazz
Born1960 (age 63–64)
Brooklyn, New York
NationalityAmerican
OccupationPhotographer
Years active1980s–present
Known forBack in the Days
Website jamelshabazz.com

Jamel Shabazz (born 1960) [1] is an African American fashion, fine-art, documentary, and street style photographer. His work has been published in books, shown in exhibitions, and used in editorial magazine works. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. [2]

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Shabazz centers his work on minority people and areas of America. He was a pioneer in creating awareness of the livelihoods of African-American and other minorities in the New York City area. Shabazz is considered a master at using what is at his disposal to create realistic scenes of being a part of the Black community in that time and place. His works express the joys that come with growing up in the city. Jamel paints the minority and poor class that lives there in a familiar and playful light that goes against negative stereotypes of the time.

One of his mst famous works is the photograph "A Time of Innocence", taken in 1981 in Brooklyn, New York.This photograph depicts a group of young African American children playing and riding in a shopping cart in the midst of a chaotic street.

Career

His book Back in the Days (2002) collects Shabazz's street style photographs made in New York City between 1980 and 1989, which document its emerging hip hop culture. [3] [4] The Last Sunday in June (2003) collects ten years of photographs of gay pride events in New York City. [5] Sights in the City: New York Street Photographs (2017) contains work from four decades of photographing people in the city. [6] City Metro (2020) contains photographs made between 1980 and 2018 of people on the New York City Subway. [7] [8]

Shabazz's photographs have appeared in the 2007 documentary film Planet B-Boy, the 2008 exhibition Street Art Street Life: From the 1950s to Now in the Bronx Museum of the Arts, [9] and as the album cover art for the 2011 hip hop album Undun by The Roots. Shabazz appeared in Cheryl Dunn's 2010 documentary Everybody Street, which is "about photographers who have used New York City street life as a major subject in their work." [10]

In an interview with Nation19 magazine, Jamel said he uses both analog film and digital photography. [11]

In 2016, a fictionalized version of Shabazz was portrayed by Cedric Benjamin in a flashback in the second episode of Luke Cage . [12] [13] [14] [15]

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Awards

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References

  1. ↑ Fleming, Amy (31 March 2021). "High-flying Brooklyn boys on a magical trampoline: Jamel Shabazz's best photograph". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  2. ↑ Walik, Jonny (3 March 2015). "40 years on NYC's streets with Jamel Shabazz". Dazed. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  3. 1 2 "Jamel Shabazz: "Back in the Days" (1980's)". AMERICAN SUBURB X. 11 March 2013. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  4. 1 2 Leon, Sarah (7 December 2017). "Jamel Shabazz: "Back in the Days" (Photos)". HuffPost. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  5. 1 2 Johnson, Ken (18 July 2003). "Art in Review; Jamel Shabazz -- 'Last Sunday in June: A Decade of Photographs'". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-08-25.
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