A Time Before Crack

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This color photograph shows two men and a woman in the Downtown section of Brooklyn, New York, in 1983. The man in the middle sits upon a Yamaha motorcycle with a Boombox on his lap. The woman on the right leans against the man. All three wear 1980s fashion. The recto of the photograph is inscribed with the title and photographer Jamel Shabazz’s signature.

Catalog date

1983; printed 2010

Recorded places

Downtown, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; Communities; Fashion; Identity; Music; Photography; Urban life

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