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A Bronx “Family Album” from Hip-Hop’s Early Days

In the eighties, the Puerto Rican photographer Ricky Flores captured the parties and the people that shaped his teen-age years.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-bronx-family-album-from-hip-hops-early-days

“The bastards,” Flores said, when I spoke with him recently. “They used my shit as source material, and all they gave me was a free subscription to The New Republic.” They gave him no credit, and little compensation. But Flores kept capturing images of his neighborhood, and beyond

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