Book : DANNY HASTINGS - LEGENDARIO - ACT 1 : ROUGH, RUGGED & RAW

 

" Legendario is a three-part photographic retrospective by renowned photographer Danny Hastings, celebrating the evolution of his groundbreaking career that helped define hip-hop’s visual identity. Each volume represents a distinct era—three “acts” that chronicle his artistic growth, creative experimentation, and cultural impact.

Act I: Rough, Rugged and Raw (1992–1994) marks the beginning of Hastings’ visual journey—the training years that shaped his vision and set the tone for everything that followed. Shot entirely on film, this first volume captures the raw energy of New York’s streets during one of hip-hop’s most explosive eras. The work is unfiltered and pure—filled with the grain, grit, and emotion that can only come from analog photography. " - courtesy of Danny Hastings' website

Hard Cover, 8.5 x 8.5, Full Color, 200 Pages.

Dropping October 28th 2025.

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Book : Hip-Hop Rising: Profiles of the 90s.

 

Here is an interesting brand new book for your collection dropped by Martin Pearson & Deverill Weekes. Back in the early 1990s Martin Pearson was a music journalist in London and Los Angeles, and a huge hip-hop fan for many years. Among many other publications, he used to work for Hip-Hop Connection in the UK and he interviewed many artist big and small from that era. He has recently put together a retrospective book of his work (with contemporary commentary). It's called Hip-Hop Rising: Profiles of the 90s.

Photos courtesy of Deverill Weekes

" Hip Hop Rising: Profiles of the 90s revisits the golden era of hip hop with striking images and fascinating interviews. The book is based on the original 1990s’ journalism and photography by Martin Pearson and Deverill Weekes, two Londoners transplanted to Los Angeles in the 90s. It offers a rare glimpse inside the creative and controversial minds of the likes of Ice Cube, Wu-Tang Clan, Queen Latifah, Beastie Boys, Eazy-E, The Pharcyde—more than forty interviews in all. "

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Wax Poetics: Behind the Cover - Danny Hastings / Gang Starr

Book : The Book Of Rhyme & Reason - 2023

 

Real Art Press and Peter Spirer deliver a photographic inside look at the making of the pioneering hip-hop documentary Rhyme & Reason released in 1997. Big thanks to my man Steph for the info. 

"In the mid-nineties, documentarian Peter Spirer embarked on a three-year odyssey to offer a realistic view of Hip-Hop and the people and culture it encompassed, interviewing over 80 artists involved in the art form. Spirer managed to capture a seminal moment as the culture balanced on the cusp of the mainstream. As Ice-T comments in his foreword to the book, 'Rhyme & Reason is one of the few films that was there to document us before Hip-Hop truly exploded.' While filming, Spirer took accompanying stills using a medium format Rolleiflex camera. It is these photographs that form The Book Of Rhyme & Reason. 'The Rollei allowed me to capture some amazing moments: Puffy getting a trim in his office while doing three tasks at once, Biggie opening record plaques on his couch, Ice-T and Mack 10 hanging with their homies, Heavy D at the barber, playing pool. There was the Jack The Rapper convention with Death Row making a statement, at a Disney World Hotel, that ended in chaos. There were magical moments such as Redman and Erick Sermon freestyling on the mic to amazed onlookers at a block party in Newark and watching Wu-Tang Clan chop it up on the block in Staten Island on a cold winter's day before they exploded.' This coffee table volume features over 130 of Spirer's photographs from 1994 to 1997. As Hip-Hop commemorates its fiftieth anniversary in 2023, it is particularly fitting that many of these images from this formative period are being seen and published for the first time."

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Book : Normski: Man with the Golden Shutter

 

Normski was a vital witness to the period known as the Golden Age of Rap, when big US artists like Run DMC, LL Cool J and Public Enemy started to play in the UK. At the same time, a British music scene born of Black music and myriad multicultural influence was developing, giving birth to Jungle, Garage and Techno.

The author, who describes himself as having been a “young Black British homeboy photographer”, was in the right place at the right time to document the emergent music, community and social movements of hip hop and rap in the UK. Normski: Man with the Golden Shutter presents Normski’s personal journey through that world from the mid-1980s to early 1990s.

The book includes Normski’s often previously unseen photographs of Public Enemy, N.W.A., Cypress Hill, De La Soul, Goldie, Ice-T, Run DMC, Wu-Tang Clan and many others, alongside the photographer’s stories and anecdotes from the centre of what would become a hugely influential cultural movement.

Release Date : September 2023

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Book : Playboys by Robert Yager

Here is a book dedicated to the Golden Era of Los Angeles Street Gangs, with photos shot by British photographer Robert Yager in the neighborhoods of central LA between 1992 and the early 2000s. This hard cover book includes artwork by members and is 144 images on 260 pages (Limited Edition of 550 Hardcover with foil stamped / Dimensions: 32 x 22 cm). Order your copy at 550BC.com  

Sue Kwon - RAP IS RISEN: New York Photographs 1988–2008

 

The legendary Photographer Sue Kwon is coming back soon with her second book "RAP IS RISEN: New York Photographs 1988–2008". 

"The last decade of the 20th century into the first decade of the 21st represent a High Renaissance age of hip hop―an era in which rap music had reached critical mass and was exploding, and in which New York City itself witnessed the worldwide ascension and cultural domination of its powerful homegrown art form. In Rap Is Risen: New York Photographs 1988–2008, celebrated photographer Sue Kwon documents this era with a combination of incisive portraits and unposed, spontaneous images that capture the energy of these ascendant artists and the city itself.

With access to some of rap music’s biggest legends―some stars already, some at the cusp of their fame―Kwon’s work offers an intimacy rarely seen in the hip hop photography of the time. The Wu-Tang Clan, Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Big Pun, Eminem, Mobb Deep, the Beastie Boys, Big L, Ice Cube, De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest are all represented here, as well as dozens of other DJs and artists that communed with Kwon to produce these images. Method Man brushing his teeth, Fat Joe playing softball in the Bronx, Prince Paul kissing his baby son―the trust inherent between subject and photographer is evident in intimate, joyful shots like these.

Giving a rare glimpse into real rap culture, and featuring 300 photographs, most of which have never been published before, Rap Is Risen is a necessary offering to music history and the faithful followers of hip hop."

Release Date : November 16, 2021

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THE ELEMENTS - Celebrating 48 Years Of Hip-Hop

To commemorate the Birth of Hip-Hop, 1XRUN (One-time-Run) present a special collection of fine art that captures a cultural movement in its early stages. Curated by Joe Conzo, don't miss exclusive artwork by Danny Hastings, Koe Rodriguez, Bio (tatscru), Henry Chalfant, Martha Cooper, Thirstin Howl III, Manuel Acevedo and more...

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Documentary : IWOW: I Walk on Water by Khalik Allah

"At night, the streets of Harlem are haunted by lost souls. Bodies that drift around in the darkness and bear the weight of the past on their shoulders. The Haitian man Frenchie is one of them, and his accentuated stutter bears witness to exile and years of abuse. But he is more than just that in Khalik Allah's new, hypnotic film opus, which turns the American tradition of social realist street photography into its own art form. Khalik Allah is an impressive photographer, and with Frenchie and the other characters of the streets in front of his lens, he has created his most ambitious film to date. The variation of formats – 8mm, 16mm and video – remind us not only that the images are the product of a process, but also that the depicted story is fragmented and that any unifying narrative must necessarily come from the protagonists themselves. The sound of the voice is consistently separated from the images of the body to which the voice belongs, no matter who is talking: Allah, his girlfriend, his mother, his family, or Frenchie himself. Allah's film is a space we move in rather than a linear progression through time. A trance-inducing film about love, friendship, religion and the experience of purpose." - courtesy of  CPH:DOX 2020 (Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival )

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Book : Rare & Unseen Moments Of 90's HipHop Vol.1,2 & 3

"T. Eric Monroe is opening his historic vault of 90's photography to preserve and promote the legacies of iconic personas who shaped Hiphop culture.

Featuring thousands of intimate moments in music history, Monroe's body of work represents a fresh and unseen perspective of cultural icons from the 90's Hiphop Community, at a time before the Internet, social media, and digital photography. A large majority of his images were never published and kept out of all commercial outlets, archived away for decades. This archive was safeguarded from public consumption... until now." - T Dot Eric 

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Book : 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 most important era of hip-hop.

After picking up a camera in the 1973 to document the graffiti art that dominated New York City, Ernest Paniccioli started his journey of whole-heartedly capturing the scene during the most fertile years of hip-hop. Always armed with a 35mm camera, he successfully photographed nearly every rapper of note since the genre's inception, making him the go-to photographer for magazines like Word Up and Rap Masters. Hip Hop at the End of the World is a carefully curated selection of photographs from Brother Ernie's extensive archives, celebrating over 40 years of swag in one of the most complete records of the most crucial movements in American music."

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Interview : The House List - Ep #61 : Danny Hastings

"Incredibly cool convo with the one and only Danny Hastings. His legacy as a hip-hop album photographer is one of legend - having shot multiple covers for Gangstarr, Group Home, Jeru, Wu Tang, Raekwon, Eminem, KRS-1, AZ, Fat Joe, Big Pun, Souls of Mischief, The UMC's, Keith Murray, Mad Skillz, PMD, LL Cool J, The Lox, Tha Liks, Mobb Deep, Tony Touch, Main-One and Rumpletilskinz!" - Peter Agoston

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Book : Tupac Shakur - Uncategorized by Chi Modu

"Documentary photographer Chi Modu is releasing a 200-page hardcover book with over 100 images of Tupac Shakur, many of which have never been made public. According to Modu, who had unparalleled access to Tupac and considered him a friend, “Tupac had a profound impact on so many people, and his appeal transcends race, class, age, and geography. It’s time to celebrate his life and there’s no better way than to share these photos with the world.” "  uncategorized

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JAMEL SHABAZZ : Street Photographer DVD - 2015

DVD - 2015 -  Oscilloscope Laboratories 

"In the infancy of hip-hop, Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz documented the pioneers of music and style who would launch an enduring worldwide phenomenon. In JAMEL SHABAZZ STREET PHOTOGRAPHER Charlie Ahearn (director of the seminal graffiti movie Wild Style) pays tribute to both Shabazz and those who defined hip-hop before it had definition. More than just vintage shots of kids rocking sneakers and savvy street style in Times Square and Fort Greene Park, Shabazz’s photographs have hundreds of stories behind them, and Ahearn’s film gives voice to these images with intimate interviews with Shabazz himself, graffiti pioneer and hip-hop historian Fred “Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite, legendary rapper KRS-One, and many others."



Instant Streaming & HD Downloads on VOD October 6th 2015 

 Limited Edition DVD  (500 Copies Only)
Out October 27th 2015
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Check Jamel Shabazz's Interview on Juxtapoz 

Documentary : Field Niggas... by Khalik Allah

Field Niggas….

"This film is a salute to the Summer nights of 2014. This goes out to all real New Yorkers the world over, and all souls against the concrete! Respect to everybody who ever stood in front of my camera. Salute to my brother Josh Furey for soldiering the audio, titles and posters. Sincere thanks given! Get prepared for the realest street document. The whole file is wild! I’m signing off as a True and Living field nigga. This is Visual calligraphy. This is some Barbara Walters 60 minute shit. Come walk with me for an hour. Peace!"

Khalik Allah   

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