Collects photographs taken in New York during the early days of hip hop featuring graffiti, break dancing, musicians, and other aspects of the emerging art form, and offers commentary from interviews with the photographer and the subjects.

Product Description: "Maripol's portraits represent an intimate and glamorously blurry love letter..."—The Village Voice During the early 80s, New York’s Lower East Side was a hotbed of creative activity. Unknown artists were synthesizing the fertile ground at the legendary New York nightclubs Studio 54, the Mudd Club, Club 57, Palladium, and Danceteria while on their way to international fame and acclaim...read more

Product Description: “Ricky Powell, aka the Rickster, has seen a lot of history. He has worked variously as a busboy, bike messenger, Frozade vender, substitute teacher, columnist, cable television host, comic, and dog walker. But he is best known as a wisecracking, self-described ‘playground rat’ who used his beat-up Minolta and party-crashing skills to become a nightlife fixture and a chronicler of the then-exploding world of hip hop...read more

Presents portraits and scenes of New York street life from the mid-70s to mid-80s, focusing on the hip-hop culture of African American youth prior to the rise of addiction and drug-related violence.