Jamel Shabazz Street Photgrapher

2013 • 81 minutes

About this movie

In the infancy of hip-hop, Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz documented the pioneers of music and style who would launch an enduring worldwide phenomenon. In JAMEL SHABAZZ STREET PHOTOGRAPHER Charlie Ahearn (director of the seminal graffiti movie Wild Style) pays tribute to both Shabazz and those who defined hip-hop before it had definition. More than just vintage shots of kids rocking sneakers and savvy street style in Times Square and Fort Greene Park, Shabazz's photographs have hundreds of stories behind them, and Ahearn's film gives voice to these images with intimate interviews with Shabazz himself, graffiti pioneer and hip-hop historian Fred –Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite, legendary rapper KRS-One, and many others.

Ratings and reviews

I saw the documentary today I enjoyed it I would love to have the two books if they don't cost me an arm and a leg or poor black woman but I love black history