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Jamel Shabazz: Albums

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This book—awarded the Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Prize—presents, for the first time, Shabazz’s work from the 1970s to ’90s as it exists in his archive: small prints thematically grouped and sequenced in traditional family photo albums that function as portable portfolios.

Shabazz began making portraits in the mid-1970s in Brooklyn, Queens, the West Village and Harlem. His camera was also at his side while working as an officer at Rikers Island in the 1980s, where he took portraits of inmates. This book features selections from over a dozen albums, many previously unseen, and includes his earliest photographs as well as images taken inside Rikers Island, all accompanied by essays that situate Shabazz’s work within the broader history of photography.

Editor(s): Michal Raz-Russo, Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. 
Author(s): Deborah Willis, Nelson George, Leslie Wilson



Hardcover, Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation, 2023
240 p, 9.5 × 11.75 in.

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