About This Item
- Call NumberSHBZ_0101
- SummaryOne of three virtual video conversations with Jamel Shabazz about the artist’s long career and the personal and public impact of his work. Through oral history and images, Shabazz shares his biography, including the roles the military and prison have played in his father’s and his own life; his artistic process; his sense of politics and social justice; and the family album as an important early encounter with photography, among other subjects. Session 2: Neighborhood and community; approaches to photography; labor and its influence; Shabazz’s work at Rikers’ Island as a Corrections Officer. Interview conducted by Natiba Guy-Clement, Assistant Director for Collections and Public Service, Center for Brooklyn History, on February 24, 2022.
- Date2/24/2022
- Physical Description1 moving image file (1 hr., 18 mins.) : digital, MP4, color
- CreatorShabazz, Jamel, 1960-
- CollectionJamel Shabazz photograph collection
- Cite AsJamel Shabazz photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- Formatmoving image
- Genreinterviews
- SubjectNineteen seventies ; Vietnam War, 1961-197--Veterans ; Street photography ; Jails--United States ; Rikers Island (N.Y.) ; Correctional personnel ; Gangs ; Sex industry ; Prostitutes ; Sex workers ; African Americans ; African American photographers
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)East Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)
- RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
- Copyright OwnerShabazz, Jamel, 1960-
- TitleConversations with Jamel Shabazz, part 2 of 3.
- Biographical NoteJamel Shabazz is a Brooklyn-born documentary, fashion and street photographer. He has authored nine monographs and contributed to over three dozen photography-related books. His work has been exhibited worldwide, and is housed in the permanent collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem; Whitney Museum of American Art; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; Fashion Institute of Technology; and Bronx Museum of the Arts. Brooklyn Public Library’s Center for Brooklyn History also holds a collection of his photographs.