Publisher/Powerhouse Books

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"A Time Before Crack" is a collection of photographs of African American photographer Jamel Shabaz. Shaba's famous as a photographer for hip hop fashion evangelism. In Japan, it has been adopted for commercials of Tower Records, and it is a photographer who continues to be loved by hip hoppers all over the world. She started taking photographs at the age of 15 and described the young people living in Brooklyn who were born and raised, and was a symbol of the street style, old fashion of that time, and their dreams. This book is a sequel to "Back in the days", which was shot in Brooklyn, New York, by the mid 70's and 80's. As the radical title, crack cocaine flows in, drug addicts surge, and good old Brooklyn is depicted before crimes such as murder and theft start to increase. Behind the smiles of dreams and hopeful young people and future hip hoppers, the deep love of the photographer is engraved.