Ricky Powell
Ricky Powell (November 20, 1961 – February 1, 2021) was an American photographer who documented popular culture including hip hop, punk rock, graffiti, and pop art. His photographs have been featured in The New York Times, the New York Post, the Daily News, The Village Voice, TIME, Newsweek, VIBE, The Source, Rolling Stone, among other publications. His photographs included candid portraits of artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Madonna, in addition to many other popular culture artists and other common people. His photographs were included in the books The Rap Photography of Ricky Powell! (1998), The Rickford Files: Classic New York Photographs (2000), Frozade Moments: Classic Street Photography of Ricky Powell (2004), and Public Access: Ricky Powell Photographs (2005) and were exhibited both domestically and internationally. He toured with American hip-hop group Beastie Boys photographing their performances and occasionally appearing in their videos.
Everybody Street
as SelfCelebrated filmmaker and photographer Cheryl Dunn turns her lens on the pioneers and masters of...
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Rappin' With The Rickster
as The RicksterJoin photographer turned public access guru Ricky Powell in this collection of clips from his...
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Dithers: The Cutting Edge of Underground Art From Across the Nation
as SelfIn studio visits with 30 of early 2000's most prolific emerging street and skate underground...
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Ricky Powell: The Individualist
as uncreditedRicky Powell boasts a quintessential New York story, rising to fame as a street photographer in...
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