Category: Features
By the 1970s, Jamaica had become the voice of resistance calling out the evils of Babylon. With the explosion of reggae, roots, rock steady, and dub, the music followed the diaspora as it spread around the globe, dominating the underground scenes in global capitals including New York, London, Toronto, and Tokyo with the arrival of […]
Bob Marley, Lyceum Theater, London (July 1975) | © Dennis Morris Hailing from Jamaica, photographer Dennis Morris arrived in London at the age of 5 as part of the Windrush Generation that rebuilt the UK after World War II. The family settled in the city’s East End at a time when local businesses openly posted […]
Blaine Dever prepares for the bareback competition at the 8 Seconds Rodeo | 📷: 8 Seconds Rodeo With Beyoncé hitting the trail this spring, Western culture is booming and photographer turned rodeo boss Ivan McClellan is making sure Black cowboys don’t get left behind with the 8 Seconds Rodeo. Founded in 2023, the 8 Seconds […]
Before dispensaries started pushing designer strains in bougie glass jars like it was Sephora for potheads, New York’s weed scene ran on grit. Dealers sold their flowers in whatever cheap plastic baggies they could score that were stamped with everything from cartoon characters to knockoff logos. Now that elected officials are busy arguing where to […]
Smoke Break | U.S. Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (2014) As the wheels of the small charter plane touched down at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in occupied Cuba, photographer Debi Cornwall stepped inside the dark heart of American empire. Military officials checked her passport and her papers without leaving a trace. “For the purposes of […]
Boy with Afro on Bicycle in front of Trash Cans, (1975). Gelatin silver print. The New York Historical, Gift of Sally Klingenstein Martell © Estate of Arlene Gottfried Back in January 2004, photographer Bruce Davidson unveiled prints from his fabled Subway series at Hermes on Madison Avenue. Amid the din of champagne glasses and chattering […]
© Leonard Freed / Magnum Photos If Rome is the Eternal City, New York is its twin flame: a gritty, glittering town built on the backs of empires won and lost, reduced to rubble and reborn like the phoenix. After ignoble defeat in World War II, Italy reemerged as a a beacon of culture and […]
During the summer of 1977, Andrew Witten started writing ZEPHYR as a nod of respect to Tony Alva and the Z-Boys who ran the West Coast skate scene. “I had already been doing little toy neighborhood tags for years by that time, with an unfortunate list of questionable names like ‘FRODO’ and ‘TREK’,” says ZEPHYR, […]
Opening night of Above Ground: Art from the Martin Wong Graffiti Collection | MCNY 📷: Herman Yung “Everything I paint is within four blocks of where I live, and the people are the people I know and see all the time,” artist Martin Wong (1946–1999) once said. This quote reflects not only the sense of […]
See Hear sign, 7th Street (2002) | photo by Mike Macioce See Hear music magazines and books, also known as See Hear Fanzines, was an underground subculture emporium located in the East Village, first in a 300-square-foot space in the basement of 59 East 7th Street, followed by a short stint on Saint Marks Place. […]
