For over thirty years, Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz has documented New York street life, most famously in his legendary images of the early hip-hop scene, collected in his book "Back in the Days." Shabazz has traveled the world taking pictures, cementing his reputation as one of the great contemporary photographers. Director Charlie Ahearn became enamored with the photographs in 2002, and set out to tell the story of Jamel Shabazz the artist, from his army service... (Full plot summary below)
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For over thirty years, Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz has documented New York street life, most famously in his legendary images of the early hip-hop scene, collected in his book "Back in the Days." Shabazz has traveled the world taking pictures, cementing his reputation as one of the great contemporary photographers. Director Charlie Ahearn became enamored with the photographs in 2002, and set out to tell the story of Jamel Shabazz the artist, from his army service, work as a corrections officer and creator of a historic body of work, incomparable in it's scope of New York life.
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| Film Comment MagazineMax NelsonThe resulting film is low-key and, at least as far as its subject is concerned, decidedly uncritical. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohTaken in its entirety, this celebration of a pioneering visionary-who never knew that he was one at the time-is a highly worthy endeavor. |
| Village VoiceCalum MarshAhearn works at a distinct disadvantage: Present to document the book's reception rather than its genesis, he has no direct access to the vibrant past about which his subjects reminisce, leaving him to merely coast on the iconography of Shabazz's work. |
