'Hip-Hop: Conscious, Unconscious' illustrates that hip-hop artists and photographers have shared a tight bond from the start of the scene 50 years ago, which has evolved and continues today.
"Hip-Hop: Conscious, Unconscious" celebrates the 50th anniversary of hip-hop with an encyclopedic show of vital images.“Hip-Hop: Conscious, Unconscious" runs from the early days of the culture to the musical genre's current eminence, as captured by photographers like Jamel Shabazz, Diwang Valdez, Campbell Addy, Adama Delphine Fawundu and many more. Images of street gangs, graffiti artists and break dancers occupy the exhibit's first half.
Images by Shabazz and his contemporaries made an impression on Fawandu. Before she became a professional artist and photographer, Fawundu just knew she loved taking pictures, and the emerging hip-hop scene became her subject of choice. When she was growing up in Brooklyn during the late ‘80s, the culture was all around her. She made mixtapes, hit parties with friends and heard her sister’s boyfriend rapping his latest poems in the car.
As the exhibition illustrates with images of Lil' Kim, DMX and Cam’ron, photography’s relationship with hip-hop shifted at the start of the ‘90s, when record labels sought to professionalize the genre and dumped loads of money into the business. Press photos, magazine layouts and album covers became the primary way the artforms engaged with each other, says, the journalist and curator behind “Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop,” a photography book published in 2018.
Contemporary images like this 2022 shot of Megan Thee Stallion demonstrate an enduring bond between hip-hop and photography.another iconic image
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