Hip Hop Files Photographs 1979-1984

Seminal hip-hop photography book!

Martha Cooper (whose pics have also graced a number of Soul Jazz Records releases) was a photo-journalist living in New York City when she first began documenting the origins of B-boy (short for break-boys) and hip hop culture. While other New Yorkers at the time saw this movement as a trite, uninspired or even offensive fad, Martha found a new form of expressing art. Through her camera lens we recount the infancy of hip-hop culture, from the alleys and subways of New York to the masses beyond the boroughs.