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About US-American photographer, Jamel SHABAZZ (b.1960)
Fashion photographer Jamel SHABAZZ lives and works in New York. "My
father, a professional photographer, helped me learn the technical
secrets. He encouraged me to go out on the streets to see things
better." Today the tens of thousands of pictures he is currently viewing
represent a single document of New York youth and subculture. Jamel
SHABAZZ only became aware of the political dimension later: "I
appreciated the work of photojournalists and in this sense documented
homelessness and prostitution, but It was my father who first noticed
the political aspect, and he said I had to stay away from it, for
example from racist graffiti in the subway, but when I look at my
contact sheets they contain everything at once: portraits, documentarism
and political observation Especially when I first started there was
police violence and poverty in New York and Ronald Reagen had just won
the presidential election." (© Jamel SHABAZZ)
His
works are included in the collections of Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York; Smithsonian Museum of African American History and
Culture, Washington D.C.; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York;
Brooklyn Public Library, New York; Schomburg Center for Research in
Black Culture, New York; Fashion Institute of Technology – Fine Art, New
York.
Photo books by Jamal SHABAZZ
'Back in the Days' (2001); 'Seconds of My Life' )2007); 'Reflections from the 80s' (2015); 'Sights in the City. New York Photographs' (2017); 'City Metro' (2019); 'Albums' (2022); '125th Street. Photography in Harlem' (2022, together with works by Berenice ABBOTT. Dawoud BEY, Katsu NAITO as well as by Gordon PARKS); 'A Time before Crack. Photographs from the 1980s' (2022); 'Faces and Places. 180-2023' (2023); 'Pieces of a Man. 1980-2015' (2023); 'Eyes on the Street' (2023)