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Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer
2013
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Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer
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2.8
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3.0
Ahearn hits all of the usual suspects, from Fab 5 Freddy on down, but his celebration of Shabazz inevitably takes on the tone of requiem.
Time Out
1.5
Ahearn works at a distinct disadvantage: Present to document the books reception rather than its genesis, he has no direct access to the vibrant past ..
Village Voice
4.5
Taken in its entirety, this celebration of a pioneering visionary who never knew that he was one at the time is a highly worthy endeavor.
Film Journal International ..
3.5
There are many potent sequences where old school B boys look through Shabazzs work and see friends they knew and sometimes lost a lifetime ago.
Oregon Live
3.0
Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer could be slicker, but it does its part in sharing in its central figures project of recording the living history tha ..
Ny Times
1.5
For Shabazz himself, theyre a compulsion, a vehicle for empathy, and an extension of daily life.
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