After decades of staying in touch with the true mavens of hip hop, Charlie Ahearn recently wrapped up a new project spotlighting one of the first street photographers in the most literal sense of the word. Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer is Ahearn’s documentary about the Back in the Days photographer, and the film includes interviews with Jamel Shabazz, KRS-One, Fab 5 Freddy and many of the subjects Shabazz captured throughout the 80s.

The documentary premiers this Sunday at BAMcinemaFest in Brooklyn.

Here are some of Shabazz’s famous pics from his book, Back in the Days.

Via Complex

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A New York artist well known for capturing street culture and people in cool clothing — as seen through the lens of a documentarian who knows a thing or two about those topics — will be the subject of “Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer,” a new feature from the “Wild Style” director Charlie Ahearn that will have its premiere at this year’s BAMcinemaFest, the festival’s organizers said on Thursday. Mr. Ahearn’s new film chronicles Mr. Shabazz, the Brooklyn photographer whose work is collected in the book “Back in the Days,” with help from Fred Brathwaite, aka Fab 5 Freddy, and KRS-One, both rappers who have figured prominently in Mr. Ahearn’s previous work.

The full BAMcinemaFest, which is presented by the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s BAMcinématek program, runs from June 16 through June 26, and is to open with Andrew Haigh’s “Weekend,” a film about a gay romance that unfolds over 48 hours. Other films on the bill include “Terri,” a comic feature starring John C. Reilly and directed by Azazel Jacobs; “Separado!”, directed by the Super Furry Animals frontman, Gruff Rhys, and Dylan Goch, and described as a hybrid documentary-costume drama about Mr. Rhys’s search for his flamenco-singing uncle; “Magic Trip,” from the prolific documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (“Taxi to the Dark Side”) about Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters; and “Last Days Here,” a documentary about Bobby Liebling and his heavy-metal band, Pentagram. The closing night film is “Tournée (On Tour),” directed by and starring Mathieu Amalric (of “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.”

via New York Times

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