 Front cover | |
| Author | Vikki Tobak |
|---|---|
| Language | English, Japanese |
| Genre | Photography |
| Published | Penguin Random House / Clarkson Potter |
| Publication place | United States, Japan |
| Pages | 288 |
| OCLC | 0525573887 |
Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop is a 2018 photography book created and written by Vikki Tobak and ongoing exhibition series.[1][2][3][4] The volume features contact prints from analog photography sessions of hip hop artists during roughly forty-years, from the beginnings of the genre in the late 1970s until the late 2000s.
Beginning first as an Instagram account in 2016 created by Tobak, the then entitled Contact High Project soon appeared as a regular column in Mass Appeal. It was shown in exhibit form for the first time at the 2017 Photoville in Brooklyn before being signed to a book deal in 2018.
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- ^ Shakur, Fayemi (October 5, 2018). "40 Years of Hip-Hop Photos". The New York Times.
- ^ "Photographers' contact sheets celebrate the visual history of hip hop". Popular Photography. 29 November 2018.
- ^ Robin Givhan (2018-11-08). "Nicki Minaj and a stack of pancakes? These rare images capture another side to hip-hop". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.