ALBUMS - Jamel Shabazz
The photographer began taking portraits in the mid-1970s in Brooklyn, Queens, the West Village and Harlem. Enlisted as an officer at Rikers Island in the 1980s, he also took portraits of inmates, which he then shared with their friends and families. Shabazz had his rolls of color film developed at a photo store, which provided two copies of each print. Typically, he gave one to his models, while archiving the other in albums that were later shown to future subjects.
This book presents photos from over a dozen albums. Many are previously unpublished, such as his earliest photographs and others taken inside Rikers Island. The images are accompanied by essays that situate Shabazz's work in the history of photography.
This book, awarded the Gordon Parks Foundation / Steidl Book Prize, presents, for the first time, Jamel Shabazz's work from the 1970s to the 1990s as it exists in his archives, i.e. small prints grouped by theme and sequenced in traditional family photo albums.
Published by Steidl, 2022
20 cm x 29 cm, 320 pages, very good condition
ISBN 9783969990957
The photographer began taking portraits in the mid-1970s in Brooklyn, Queens, the West Village and Harlem. Enlisted as an officer at Rikers Island in the 1980s, he also took portraits of inmates, which he then shared with their friends and families. Shabazz had his rolls of color film developed at a photo store, which provided two copies of each print. Typically, he gave one to his models, while archiving the other in albums that were later shown to future subjects.
This book presents photos from over a dozen albums. Many are previously unpublished, such as his earliest photographs and others taken inside Rikers Island. The images are accompanied by essays that situate Shabazz's work in the history of photography.
This book, awarded the Gordon Parks Foundation / Steidl Book Prize, presents, for the first time, Jamel Shabazz's work from the 1970s to the 1990s as it exists in his archives, i.e. small prints grouped by theme and sequenced in traditional family photo albums.
Published by Steidl, 2022
20 cm x 29 cm, 320 pages, very good condition
ISBN 9783969990957
The photographer began taking portraits in the mid-1970s in Brooklyn, Queens, the West Village and Harlem. Enlisted as an officer at Rikers Island in the 1980s, he also took portraits of inmates, which he then shared with their friends and families. Shabazz had his rolls of color film developed at a photo store, which provided two copies of each print. Typically, he gave one to his models, while archiving the other in albums that were later shown to future subjects.
This book presents photos from over a dozen albums. Many are previously unpublished, such as his earliest photographs and others taken inside Rikers Island. The images are accompanied by essays that situate Shabazz's work in the history of photography.
This book, awarded the Gordon Parks Foundation / Steidl Book Prize, presents, for the first time, Jamel Shabazz's work from the 1970s to the 1990s as it exists in his archives, i.e. small prints grouped by theme and sequenced in traditional family photo albums.
Published by Steidl, 2022
20 cm x 29 cm, 320 pages, very good condition
ISBN 9783969990957
