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Jamel Shabazz's intimate pictures of the New York subway

Jamel Shabazz’s intimate pictures of the New York subway

Over the past 40 years, Jamel Shabazz has created a singular archive of New York life on the move, finding intimate moments of beauty and humanity in the most unlikely of places: the public transit system.

Straight Out of brooklyn, Brooklyn, NYc ca. 1982 © Jamel Shabazz, courtesy of Galerie Bene Taschen

Hailing from Red Hook, Brooklyn, Jamel Shabazz was just nine years old when he first read Leonard Freed’s 1968 book Black in White America. The book, ...

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