Jamel Shabazz
type: CreativeWork
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310218842
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  alternate name: African American families--Portraits
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  alternate name: African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Portraits
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  alternate name: Photography of families
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  alternate name: Photograph albums--New York (State)--New York
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  alternate name: Portrait photography--New York (State)--New York
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  alternate name: Street photography--New York (State)--New York
abstract: "The influential New York photographer Jamel Shabazz has created portraits of the city's communities for over 40 years. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Shabazz began photographing people he encountered on New York streets in the late 1970s, creating an archive of cultural shifts and struggles across the city. His portraits underscore the street as a space for self-presentation, whether through fashion or pose. In every instance Shabazz aims, in his words, to represent individuals and communities with 'honor and dignity.' This book--awarded the Gordon Parks Foundation / Steidl Book Prize--presents, for the first time, Shabazz's work from the 1970s to '90s as it exists in his archive: small prints thematically grouped and sequenced in traditional family photo albums that function as portable portfolios. Shabazz began making portraits in the mid-1970s in Brooklyn, Queens, the West Village and Harlem. His camera was also at his side while working as an officer at Rikers Island in the 1980s, where he took portraits of inmates that he later shared with their friends and families. Shabazz had his rolls of color film processed at a one-hour photo shop that provided two copies of each print: he typically gave one to his sitters, and the second he organized into changing albums to be shown to future subjects. This book features selections from over a dozen albums, many never-before-seen, and includes his earliest photographs as well as images taken inside Rikers Island, all accompanied by essays that situate Shabazz's work within the broader history of photography."-- Publisher's description.
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310123367
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310188861
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310218844
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31083269
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/311218841
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310218842
editor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310218843
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: lang
  text: In English.
subject of: Statement
  additional type: award
  text: The Gordon Parks Foundation / Steidl Book Prize, 2022.
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: Foreword / Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. -- Looking B[l]ack: Jamel Shabazz / Deborah Willis -- Attitude as life force / Nelson George -- Jamel Shabazz: albums / Michal Raz-Russo -- "Dig and be dug in return": Jamel Shabazz, the street, and photography / Leslie M. Wilson.
temporal coverage: 1900-1999
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301324909

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property ID: NL-AmRIJ
value: 324909