Publisher/Powerhouse Books

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"Drama & Flava" is a collection of works by American photographer Jamel Shabazz (1960-). Shabazz is widely known for his masterpiece "Back in the Days," which documented the early days of hip-hop in New York in the 1980s, and has consistently observed the daily lives and youth culture of the Black community from within. His photographs are not merely street snapshots; they capture how people express their dignity and pride through their attire, poses, and behavior, and today they occupy an important position not only in the history of hip-hop but also in the history of contemporary photography. This book is a compilation that brings together his representative works from the late 1970s to the early 1990s and his fashion and editorial works from the 2000s onward as a single flow. It includes portraits of 1980s street corners adorned with graffiti, boomboxes, Kangol, and Adidas, as well as sophisticated recent works set in Paris, New York, and Tokyo, and the consistent theme running through it all is the perspective that "style is self-expression." The title, "Drama," refers to presence and attitude, while "Flava" signifies individuality and aesthetic sense, portraying everyone from celebrities to unknown young people with equal perspective. It is a documentary chronicling the evolution of Black culture, and at the same time, a book that encapsulates the universal question of how people present themselves and try to show themselves to the world.