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Shirt Kings
  • Language: en

Shirt Kings

  • Categories: Art

Jamaica, Queens, New York in the mid 1980s. Rappers, celebrities and hip hop fans came from all over the city to get their own customized T-shirt by the Shirt Kings. The style traveled all over the world through record covers and music videos, and the Shirt Kings designs soon became synonymous with hip hop and the culture of making something out of nothing. Shirt Kings: Pioneers of Hip Hop Fashion looks at the early days of street wear through the lens of the pioneering group of artistic entrepreneurs known as the Shirt Kings. By adapting the graffiti skills from the trains and spray cans to shirts and airbrush they created a new look for a new generation. Edwin PHADE Sacasa is a founding artist of the group and it is through his archives that we are transported to the 1980s in New York City where the fashion was loud, colorful, and filled with cartoon imagery. But not just any cartoon imagery for the cartoons where urbanized. Mickey Mouse with a Fila suit, Casper the Friendly Ghost w

Big Up
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Big Up

Ben Watts has rapidly emerged as one of today's top photographers. His collection of photographic moments captured both on assignment and while working on personal projects covers a broad range of subjects, from street photography to fashion shoots, from hip-hop culture to high school wrestlers. Watts's images not only show the personal visual diary of an artist, but provide a new look at what it means to be young and urban. Often with short notes from himself or his subjects scribbled on the photos, or with bits and pieces from the "site" (an airplane boarding pass, an entry ticket), Watts's images are put together in fantastic collages and combinations that are humorous and insightful at the same time. Big Up is Ben Watts's personal scrapbook reproduced in a large-format book that preserves all the qualities of a photo album. His images--vibrant, energetic, and sensuous--take readers on a photographic journey that stays in mind long after the book has been put down.

The Book of Hip Hop Cover Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

The Book of Hip Hop Cover Art

Hip hop is today’s most influential and exciting musical phenomenon—and for the first time, all the greatest examples of hip hop and rap sleeve artwork are brought together to provide a history of this innovative and always- surprising music. Combining diverse artwork with exclusive interviews from major players of the rap world—including Public Enemy frontman Chuck D, designer Jeff Janks, and photographer and art director George Dubose—this lively collection is a must-have for hip hop and rap enthusiasts, design aficionados, and record collectors.

Hip Hop at the End of the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Hip Hop at the End of the World

Filled with more than 250 images of artists including Ice Cube, The Notorious B.I.G., LL Cool J, Naughty by Nature, Public Enemy, 50 Cent, N.W.A, Snoop Dogg, Lil' Kim, Flavor Flav, Lauren Hill, Queen Latifah, TLC, many that have never before been published, this book is set to become the new hip-hop photography bible With exclusive, behind-the-scenes access, preeminent photographer Brother Ernie captures the last four decades of the evolution of hip-hop--the styles that grew from it, and the artists who shaped it. Complete with Brother Ernie's personal anecdotes of time spent with subjects, and stories behind the photographs, Hip-Hop at the End of the World shares intimate moments from the m...

Cause We Got Style!
  • Language: en

Cause We Got Style!

An astonishing collection of early European hip hop pose photos. In the early days of hip hop, American youth culture was still hard to come by and many young people in Europe had to work out their own ways of incorporating it into their lives. Most of the photos in Cause We Got Style! are snaphots taken by kids on their way to a concert, next to a freshly painted graffiti piece or in their rooms at home. The result is as charming as it is revealing.

The Boombox Project
  • Language: en

The Boombox Project

A highly visual and star-filled celebration of the Old School hip hop icon. The boombox has always been a means of expression and empowerment, adding a prevailing swagger to your experiences.

Behind the Beat
  • Language: en

Behind the Beat

The revealing photographs found within the pages of Behind the Beat expose the creative spaces of top DJ's and music producers from the UK and US. This book is an open invitation to step into the private world of the hip hop home studio and discover its inner workings. Featured are the studios and equipment of some of the most influential music creators working today including: DJ Premier Dj Spinna, Skitz, Nextmen, Taskforce, Dj Swamp, Dj Cheapshot, E-Swift, Beyond There, Kut masta kurt, Fat jack, Herbaliser, Runaways, Jehst, Beatminerz, Dj Shadow, dj design, Dan the Automator, Chief Xcel, Braintax, Young Einstein, Numark, Cut chemist, Thes one, J zone and Mario Caldato Jnr. Includes an Audio CD with tracks from featured DJs and labels.

Lo-Life
  • Language: en

Lo-Life

Lo-Life: An American Classic takes the reader on a tripto New York City in the early 80s-a time when crimeand violence ran the streets. The infamous Lo-Lifegang emerged from this tumultuous time. Formedby crews of teenagers from the Brownsville and CrownHeights neighborhoods of Brooklyn, they made a namefor themselves by dressing head-to-toe in expensive RalphLauren clothing, or "Lo." Polo apparel-and other preppy80s fashion labels like Guess, Nautica, and Benetton,among others-represented an aspirational lifestyle forthese kids from rough neighborhoods just struggling toget by. Fighting for style and survival, the Lo-Lifestargeted these brands, and would acquire them by anymeans necessary, ...

Five for Five
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Five for Five

A critical and interpretive tribute to the work of film maker Spike Lee. Essays by African-American writers - Terry McMillan, Toni Cade Bambara, Nelson George, Charles Johnson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr and Melvin Van Peebles - accompany production stills taken by David Lee.

Fuck You Heroes
  • Language: en

Fuck You Heroes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Considered an important photographer of his generation, Glen E. Friedman has been a unique documentarian since the age of 12, and soon thereafter his first published photo appeared in SkateBoarder magazine. Over the past 25 years he has photographed some of the most idealistic, interesting and rebellious cultural icons around, documenting the rise of the hard-core punk rock scene in the late 70's/early 80's with such bands as Black Flag, Dead Kennedy's, Minor Threat and even producing the 1st album for Suicidal Tendencies (also from DogTown) and later the rise of rap music in the mid 1980's with groups such as Public Enemy, Run-DMC, and the Beastie Boys. He was one of the first to publicize ...