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Here I Am — Photographs by Lisa Leone
Here I Am — Photographs by Lisa Leone
Here I Am — Photographs by Lisa Leone
Here I Am — Photographs by Lisa Leone
Here I Am — Photographs by Lisa Leone

Here I Am — Photographs by Lisa Leone

$50.00

HIP-HOP MASTERPIECE, AND BEST SELLER!

9 x 10 inches horizontal; black and white and color photographs; 104 pages; hardcover. $50.00 plus shipping

With texts by Rosie Perez, Fab5 Freddy, Nas, and others

ISBN: 978-0-9906036-03

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SELECT PRESS: Featured by The New York Times, Juxtapoz, Visionaire online, Rolling Stone online, Jet magazine, Time Out Dubai, NPR, and more; with photographs featured in Netflix's series "Hip-Hip Evolution" 

The Bronx—Paris—Los Angeles—early 1990s—Hip hop. This culture of music, dance, art and fashion is forever in its nascent and most authentic in Here I Am, the first monograph of Lisa Leone’s photographs. From Nas in the first studio recordings for what would become Illmatic to Snoop on the set of his first video, from ingénue Debi Mazar hanging on the stoops of the West Village to Grandmaster Flash at a RockSteady reunion, Leone’s photographs open portals to the sounds, places and, most important, the people who forged and continue to influence the energy that is hip hop.

“Hip Hop was an amalgamation of disciplines that coexisted and collectively changed the world we knew. Today its divided existence pales to its once innocent intentions of being acknowledged. Lisa’s photography captures a culture in transition; it is through her lens that one can appreciate the journey of the young artists who helped pave the way for generations to come.” —Mare139


Bronx-born LISA LEONE infuses her frames with sound and motion, pointing to what would become her multi-faceted way of seeing through both photography and cinema. More