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Jamel Shabazz

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Not to be confused with Trinidadian football manager Jamaal Shabazz.
Jamel Shabazz
Born1960 (age 63–64)
Brooklyn, New York
NationalityAmerican
OccupationPhotographer
Years active1980s–present
Known forBack in the Days
Websitejamelshabazz.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]

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

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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]

Publications

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  • Back in the Days. Brooklyn: powerHouse, 2002. ISBN 978-1576871065.[3]
  • The Last Sunday in June. Brooklyn: powerHouse, 2003. ISBN 978-1576871720.[5]
  • A Time Before Crack. Brooklyn: powerHouse, 2005. ISBN 978-1576872130.[16]
  • Seconds of My Life. Brooklyn: powerHouse, 2007. ISBN 978-1576873601.[16]
  • Sights in the City: New York Street Photographs. Damiani, 2017. ISBN 978-8862085229.[17]
  • Back in the Days: Remix. Brooklyn: powerHouse, 2017. ISBN 978-1576875674.[4]
  • City Metro. Bene Taschen, 2020.[18][19]

Awards

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References

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  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. ^ a b "Jamel Shabazz: "Back in the Days" (1980's)". AMERICAN SUBURB X. 11 March 2013. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  4. ^ a b Leon, Sarah (7 December 2017). "Jamel Shabazz: "Back in the Days" (Photos)". HuffPost. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  5. ^ a b 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.
  6. ^ Berger, Maurice (2 May 2017). "Jamel Shabazz's 40 Years of Sights and Styles in New York". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  7. ^ Warner, Marigold (6 July 2020). "City Metro: Jamel Shabazz's ode to New York's Subway". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  8. ^ Dinsdale, Emily (13 May 2020). "Jamel Shabazz's joyful pictures of the New York City subway". Dazed. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  9. ^ Cotter, Holland (September 11, 2008). "Finding Art in the Asphalt". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-01-24.
  10. ^ Romig, Rollo (3 September 2010). "A First Look at "Everybody Street"". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  11. ^ "The Mathematics of Photography". Nation19 Magazine. 30 November 2011. pp. 22–27. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
  12. ^ "Luke Cage" Code of the Streets (TV Episode 2016), retrieved 2017-06-08
  13. ^ Lewis, Miles Marshall (29 September 2016). "Why Luke Cage Is Perfectly Suited For The Black Lives Matter Era". The FADER. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  14. ^ Canty, Erin (3 October 2016). "'Luke Cage' is the blackest show on TV, and I am totally here for it". Upworthy. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  15. ^ Makowski, Ed (9 October 2016). "Luke Cage is a Bulletproof Black Man in a Hoodie". Media Milwaukee. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  16. ^ a b Haj-Najafi, Daryoush (26 May 2011). "Jamel Shabazz: A Time Before Crack". Vice. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  17. ^ Rosen, Miss (18 April 2017). "Photographer Jamel Shabazz Reflects on the Memories That Shaped His Vision of New York Street Style". Vogue. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  18. ^ Palumbo, Jacqui (10 June 2020). "Photographer Jamel Shabazz's radiant love letter to the New York City subway". CNN. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  19. ^ "Jamel Shabazz - City Metro | 978-3-00-065181-6". benetaschenshop.com. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  20. ^ "Too Fly, Downtown Brooklyn, 1982". Aperture. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  21. ^ "Jamel Shabazz - Honorees". The Gordon Parks Foundation. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  22. ^ "The Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Prize : Jamel Shabazz". The Eye of Photography Magazine. 25 March 2022. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  23. ^ "Jamel Shabazz". Lucie Awards. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
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