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The photographer began taking portraits in the mid-1970s in Brooklyn, Queens, the West Village, and Harlem. While working 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 shop that provided two copies of each print. He usually gave one to his subjects, while he archived the other in albums that were later shown to future subjects.
This book features photographs drawn from more than a dozen albums. Many are previously unpublished, including his very first photographs as well as other images taken inside Rikers Island. The images are also accompanied by essays that situate Shabazz’s work within the history of photography.
This book, winner of 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—that is, small prints grouped by theme and arranged in traditional family photo albums.
Published by Steidl, 2022
20 cm 29 cm, 320 pages, in very good condition
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The photographer began taking portraits in the mid-1970s in Brooklyn, Queens, the West Village, and Harlem. While working 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 shop that provided two copies of each print. He usually gave one to his subjects, while he archived the other in albums that were later shown to future subjects.
This book features photographs drawn from more than a dozen albums. Many are previously unpublished, including his very first photographs as well as other images taken inside Rikers Island. The images are also accompanied by essays that situate Shabazz’s work within the history of photography.
This book, winner of 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—that is, small prints grouped by theme and arranged in traditional family photo albums.
Published by Steidl, 2022
20 cm 29 cm, 320 pages, in very good condition
ISBN
